Ideas Quotes
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One can steal ideas, but no one can steal execution or passion.
Tim Ferriss
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I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry - just making them feel - is paramount to me.
Stephen Sondheim
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A sold-out house my first night back. Do you have any idea what kinda pressure that is? I could have been at home in my warm bed, playing Nintendo.
Richard Pryor
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I've been in love with people and ideas in several cities and learned that the lovers I've loved and the ideas I've embraced depended on where I was, how cold it was, and what I had to do to be able to stand it.
Eve Babitz
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Ideas have consequences and bad ideas can have lethal consequences.
George Weigel
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An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
Thomas More
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As to acknowledging that he was about to obtain a triumph with the ideas of another man, he never thought of such a thing. It is generally in perfect good faith that the jackdaw struts about in the peacock's feathers.
Emile Gaboriau
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I've never really had any trouble coming up with ideas; they just grow, like weeds. The weeding is the hard part.
Stuart Woods
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Ethical ideas and sentiments have to be considered as parts of the phenomena of life at large. We have to deal with man as a product of evolution, with society as a product of evolution, and with moral phenomena as products of evolution.
Herbert Spencer
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Books opened up a whole new world to me. Through them I discovered new ideas, traveled to new places, and met new people. Books helped me learn to understand other people and they taught me a lot about myself. ... Some books you never forget. Some characters become your friends for life.
Judy Blume
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Some people should just start ideas and other ones should carry them out.
Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
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At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.
Bill Gates
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I discovered philosophy in my youth when I read wildly, and thus I was exposed to the world of ideas.
Michel Onfray
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The reality is the Lean Startup method is not about cost, it is about speed. Lean startups waste less money, because they use a disciplined approach to testing new products and ideas.
Eric Ries
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I get some of my best ideas while out walking.
William Gurstelle
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You send a message in everything you do, Im always very conscious about what ideas and what energy I put out there.
Tom Shadyac
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Time was invented by the Almighty God in order to give ideas a chance.
Nicholas Murray Butler
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You know when you're telling these little stories? Here's a good idea: have a point. It makes it so much more interesting for the listener!
Steve Martin
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“The creative person wants to be a know-it-all. He wants to know about all kinds of things-ancient history, nineteenth century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later, or six months, or six years. But he has faith that it will happen.”
Carl Ally
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There definitely isn't a structure anymore to how I get ideas. A lot of times I'll just write down a phrase, or I'll have an idea that's attached to just a few chords. Other times, it's work.
Ryan Adams
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When you hit a groove, it's not you; it's the spirit world. The spirits whisper the ideas in your brain and prod you along. They're the ones that are really happy.
Tommy Chong
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You've got a good idea, how do you make it stick?
Chip Heath
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The shape the words end up taking are themselves the meaning of the words, they are retrospectively what we meant to say. There's no way of knowing this until you register it in visible form. But the other side of this is that you do have some idea of where you are going.
Teju Cole
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I think sometimes I get overly excited about adding things and having new ideas. You forget that more isn't always better.
Ed Droste