Idea Quotes
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Atheists are often charged with blasphemy, but it is a crime they cannot commit... When the Atheist examines, denounces, or satirises the gods, he is not dealing with persons but with ideas. He is incapable of insulting God, for he does not admit the existence of any such being... We attack not a person but a belief, not a binge but an idea, not a fact but a fancy.
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There were so many great teachers that had so much to offer. The idea of being rigid, why would you do that? People have their things, but why be rigid with any education when you can take things from here and take things from there?
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I love the idea of creation and creativity.
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I keep very weird hours. I never know when I'm going to get an idea.
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I love this idea of the body as a trauma archive!
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Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
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This principle eludes most people, but it is critical: You are not your idea, and if you identify too closely with your ideas, you will take offense when they are challenged.
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It’s the execution that matters, never the idea.
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An idea is a curious thing. It will not work unless you do.
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If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?
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It had never occurred to Giles that there was something perfectly sensible about wanting to hold onto innocence. He had always gone in for the idea that since we only pass this way once, experience counts for everything.
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Getting lost in human perception is a very scary idea.
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I sometimes think that I don't let myself know what I'm really thinking about. That doesn't make much sense but it makes sense to me. I have this idea that the reason we have dreams is that we're thinking about things that we don't know we're thinking about—and those things, well, they sneak out of us in our dreams. Maybe we're like tires with too much air in them. The air has to leak out. That's what dreams are.
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... when one reflects on the books one never has written, and never may, though their schedules lie in the beautiful chirography which marks the inception of an unexpressed thought upon the pages of one's notebook, one is aware, of any given idea, that the chances are against its ever being offered to one's dearest readers.
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I've very rarely worked with somebody that had such a clear idea of what Alejandro Amenábar wanted to do and what he wanted to achieve. The guy is incredibly prepared. He was clearly making a movie for himself and his own dream. I just tried to be a part of that dream. It's a rare opportunity.
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I love the idea that the person that signs you makes the record, because you get that sense of guidance, of being there at that close point.
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People have no idea how strong a pull sex, money, and power have on them until they try to resist their pull.
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Will gives us the ability to take an idea hold that idea and zero right in on something.
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I like the idea of a proportional tax. That way you pay according to your ability.
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You are not your idea, and if you identify too closely with your ideas, you will take offense when they are challenged.
