Idea Quotes
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A lot of my research time is spent daydreaming - telling an imaginary admiring audience of laymen how to understand some difficult scientific idea.
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National parks are the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than our worst.
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If you remember only one thing I've said, remember that an idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor. If you have never made a good metaphor, then you don't know what it's all about.
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I had been told I was on the road to hell, but I had no idea it was just a mile down the road with a dome on it.
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[On Mao Tse-tung] Mao, he had the right idea but just got bushwhacked.
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Suffering is part of the divine idea.
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An idea on paper to a reality in large part.
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I don't, consciously anyways, sort of listen to things with the idea of getting something from them that I can use.
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Every great love brings with it the cruel idea of killing the object of its love so that it may be removed once and for all from the wicked game of change: for love dreads change even more than annihilation.
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Non-violence is not a passive idea. It is ethical activism at its political best.
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A belief is an idea around which we close our minds.
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I literally have no idea what's to come. I try to just stay in the moment.
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Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.
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I could not sleep when I got on such a hunt for an idea until I had caught it; ...This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck by me; for I am never easy now, when I am handling a thought, till I have bounded it north, and bounded it south, and bounded it east, and bounded it west.
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Every original idea is first ridiculed, then vigorously attacked, and finally taken for granted.
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I have a tape recorder, and I just sing into it. I like to write that way. Sometimes I'll just get melodic ideas, and then I'll go home and sit down and add the lyrics. Or sometimes I'll get a lyric idea that I love. Usually it's pretty combined. Usually I get some kind of a lyrical concept and a melody and work with that.
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The idea that Donald Trump is a conservative is a complete farce. He is a conman who pretends to be a conservative.
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Nothing is as difficult as to achieve results in this world if one is filled full of great tolerances and the milk of human kindness. The person who achieves must generally be a one-idea individual concentrated entirely on that one idea and ruthless in his aspect toward other men and other ideas.
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He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.
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The idea is to become a best-selling author first and then the rest of my books will be slam dunks.
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Terrible wars have been fought where millions have died for one idea - freedom. And it seems that something that means so much to so many people would be worth having.
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America is truly special because it's founded on an idea. It's the ideological and philosophical equivalent of a formless God, in other words, you know? It's, again, the only great country in the world that it is formed out of words.
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The thing that's really rewarding is when people will say to me that they had actually given up the bass, but are going to start again because the online school seems like a good idea.
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It is much better to have just one idea, and if the idea is clear, then you can fight for it. That is how you can get things done.
