Idea Quotes
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In World War II all these countries were completely against each other, complete opposite. Now we're getting them all together, through the idea of music.
Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
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Archaeologists gave the military the idea to use aerial photographs for spying and field survey. We are fortunate that the spatial and spectral resolutions of the imagery available to us are so broadly useful for archaeology.
Sarah Parcak
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I had a chance to sit and watch the press from the bench, so when I got the chance to go in, I had an idea of what I could do.
Austin Ainge
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Idea and experience will never coincide in the center; only through art and action are they united.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
Ezra Pound
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I always write and create. I'm never not creating. I'm always creating a show, every year, whether it gets picked up or not. I always sell a pilot or an idea. I like to be in control.
Nick Swardson
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I'm not a massive artist by any stretch of the imagination. Yes, I've been in papers and magazines, but you never have any idea if anyone actually reads it or pays any attention.
Ben Eine
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First feel sure of idea, then the execution will be easier.
Eva Hesse
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Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge
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The Chinese are clearly inculcating the idea that science is exciting and important, and that's why they, as a whole-they're graduating four times as many engineers as we are, and that's just happened over the last 20 years.
Bill Gates
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The satirical Peter Principle, articulated in the 1960s by education professor Laurence J. Peter, states that “every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.” The idea is that in a hierarchical organization, anyone doing a job proficiently will be rewarded with a promotion into a new job that may involve more complex and/or different challenges. When the employee finally reaches a role in which they don’t perform well, their march up the ranks will stall, and they will remain in that role for the rest of their...
Brian Christian
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My entire approach is built on the idea that things can be commercial and artistic.
Ernest Dion Wilson
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
Erica Jong
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I've always been suspicious of collective truths. I think an idea is true when it hasn't been put into words and that the moment it's put into words it becomes exaggerated. Because the moment it's put into words there's an abuse, an excess in the expression of the idea that makes it false.
Eugene Ionesco
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Even a mediocre idea created and presented with passion can change the world.
Boland T. Jones
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We all have a short period of time on this earth-We probably only have the opportunity to do a few things really great and do them well. None of us has any idea how long we're going to be here nor do I, but my feeling is I've got to accomplish a lot of these things while I'm young.
Steve Jobs
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I am sickened by the idea that anyone would think of me in racist terms.
Steve Clevenger
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Well, of course the general idea was dreamed up by the advertising agency and so my job was to realize that. And we down to Lubbock, Texas, usually and onto a ranch and we would pick cowboys who looked the part and photograph them under dramatic situations - rounding up wild horses or running through streams and then reaching in and taking a drag on a cigarette.
Haskell Wexler
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Where did you get that idea for a nose? - Frizz Mizuno
Scott Westerfeld
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The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief.
Sarah Vowell
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When I was younger I was much more polemical and didactic, much less trusting. Inherently my own vision of the world would weave its way through the characters. Also, my concerns are changing. What happens is you write a few plays and get boxed into some idea of what your concerns are and what you're supposed to be writing about.
Eve Ensler
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I like the idea of putting your Christmas wish list up and letting people share it.
Bill Gates
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It is extremely natural for us to desire to see such our thoughts put into the dress of words, without which indeed we can scarce have a clear and distinct idea of them our selves.
Eustace Budgell
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People think about this idea that there's 122 million kids that are alive that would not be if that fatality rate had stayed at the 1990 level, that's 122 million families.
Bill Gates