Idea Quotes
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What we miss is how unsustainable that is. Even bigger is the idea that we as a nation are not made up of businesses, banks, malls, markets, homes or things. Our greatest asset is ourselves: our lives and our people. The real investment should be there.
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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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... 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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Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
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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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A good idea is something like an emotion, you just can't keep it in.
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Anything that has to travel all the way down from your cerebellum to your fingertips, there's a lot of things that can happen on the journey. Sometimes I'll listen to records, my own stuff, and I think god, the original idea for this was so much better than the mutation that we arrived at.
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My entire approach is built on the idea that things can be commercial and artistic.
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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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We have to evolve means for obtaining energy from stores which are forever inexhaustible, to perfect methods which do not imply consumption and waste of any material whatever. I now feel sure that the realization of that idea is not far off. ...the possibilities of the development I refer to, namely, that of the operation of engines on any point of the earth by the energy of the medium.
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Getting lost in human perception is a very scary idea.
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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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The very idea of making shoes by hand boggled her mind.
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What I do think is important is this idea of a privacy native where you grow up in a world where the values of privacy are very different. So it's not that I'm against privacy but that the values around privacy are very different for me and for people who are younger than my parent's generation, for whom it's weird to live in a glass house.
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I like the idea of a proportional tax. That way you pay according to your ability.
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Where did you get that idea for a nose? - Frizz Mizuno
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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'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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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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You are not your idea, and if you identify too closely with your ideas, you will take offense when they are challenged.
