Idea Quotes
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All painting worth its name, unless one is talking about black and white, must include the idea of color as one of its necessary supports, in the same way that it includes chiaroscuro, proportion, and perspective.
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Before you reject an idea, find at least five good things about it.
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I like the idea of putting your Christmas wish list up and letting people share it.
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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...
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The value of a good idea is in using it.
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I'm not a big believer in the idea of genre - I'm a fan of any writer who can pull me into compelling characters and stories - but I can't imagine I'll start writing domestic dramas any time soon.
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The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief.
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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.
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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.
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Worse than jokes in the morning did she hate the idea of a husband.
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I try not to think about anything special while running. As a matter of fact, I usually run with my mind empty. However, when I run empty-minded, something naturally and abruptly crawls in sometime. That might become an idea that can help me with my writing.
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I do love the idea of ritual.
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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.
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Wait for the idea. It may not come at first, but you must be patient, never doubting, waiting in faith. It will come.
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A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
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The idea of dying is worse than dying itself, but less cruel than the idea that another has died.
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I am sickened by the idea that anyone would think of me in racist terms.
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I know tolerably well what Ireland was, but have a very imperfect idea of what Ireland is.
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An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
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In Chicago, if you tell someone you're a writer, they look at you suspiciously - as if to say "yeah, right." In New York, people don't question the idea. If you say you're a writer, that's what you are.
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I like the idea of a family, but I don't know that I'd like to be a single mum.
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In Britain, it's bred into you, the idea that you can't really change anything, so why bother. When I went to school in America, it was the total opposite view - you, as an individual, can change anything and everything. It's how you're raised.
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To be sociable, I puffed on a marijuana cigarette, but I didn't inhale...I just hate the idea of drawing smoke into my lungs.
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Focus on execution rather than just the idea.
