Idea Quotes
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Even a mediocre idea created and presented with passion can change the world.
Boland T. Jones
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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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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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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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The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief.
Sarah Vowell
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Mr Thornton would rather have heard that she was suffering the natural sorrow. In the first place, there was selfishness enough in him to have taken pleasure in the idea that his great love might come in to comfort and console her; much the same kind of strange passionate pleasure which comes stinging through a mother's heart, when her drooping infant nestles close to her, and is dependent upon her for everything.
Elizabeth Gaskell
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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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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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Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge
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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
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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 saw this DJ playing music and saying things to the kids. They would answer him back, and I say, 'That's a great idea.'
Sylvia
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All of us have life; few of us have an idea of it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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While 'The Middle' is still funny for adults to watch, there aren't sex jokes. And I'm fine with that. I like the idea that my nieces and nephews can watch it without their parents.
Neil Flynn
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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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We have hardly an adequate idea how all-powerful law is in forming public opinion, in giving tone and character to the mass of society.
Ernestine Rose
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It is not a band. It is an idea.
Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
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Where did you get that idea for a nose? - Frizz Mizuno
Scott Westerfeld
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This happens to me: I have this great idea and then I make the mistake of telling someone else.
Scott Adams
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The thing is, in America, it just seemed ridiculous - I mean, the idea of having a hit record over there, ... It was just something you could never do.
John Lennon The Beatles
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Before you reject an idea, find at least five good things about it.
Thomas A. Edison
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I know tolerably well what Ireland was, but have a very imperfect idea of what Ireland is.
John Stuart Mill
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There is a challenge of doing something new. Sometimes you have to suspend whether you believe in yourself doing it and just give yourself over to the idea that they believe in you.
Josh Peck
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The most powerful idea that's entered the world in the last few thousand years - the idea of grace - is the reason I would like to be a Christian.
Bono U2