Ideas Quotes - Page 17

• It is important to expose yourself to ideas you don't agree with from time to time. Attend a political rally of a party you do not like.

  Fred Green

  Party, Political, Important

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• I'm just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that's my way of thinking.

  Ben Nicholson

  Thinking, Drawing, Way

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• I want to make clear only that words are not the things spoken about, and that there is no such thing as an object in absolute isolation.

  Alfred Korzybski

  Want, Isolation, Clear

  Alfred Korzybski (1958). “Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics”, p.50, Institute of GS

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• A bad earthquake at once destroys the oldest associations: the world, the very emblem of all that is solid, has moved beneath our feet like a crust over a fluid; one second of time has conveyed to the mind a strange idea of insecurity, which hours of reflection would never have created.

  Charles Darwin

  Reflection, Earthquakes, Feet

  Charles Darwin, R. D. Keynes (2001). “Charles Darwin's Beagle Diary”, p.292, Cambridge University Press

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• The idea is that if we can put our own people through something almost as bad as what they might have to go through if they were taken captive, they will inoculate themselves.

  Jane Mayer

  Taken, People, Might

  "The Biscuit Torturers of the U.S. Military". www.dailykos.com. July 06, 2005.

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• Forget being the best of anything. That's the fruit of the action, and you do the work -they say- for the doing, not the fruit. You can never really know how it's gonna turn out in the world but you know if you enjoy doing it. And ideas start flowing and you start getting, you know, excited about stuff. Then you're having a great time in the doing and that's what it's all about. If you don't enjoy the doing, then do something else.

  David Lynch

  Creativity, World, Stuff

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• This kind of inequality - a level that we haven’t seen since the Great Depression - hurts us all. When middle-class families can no longer afford to buy the goods and services that businesses are selling...it drags down the entire economy from top to bottom. America was built on the idea of broad-based prosperity... That’s why a CEO like Henry Ford made it his mission to pay his workers enough so that they could buy the cars he made. It’s also why a recent study showed that countries with less inequality tend to have stronger and steadier economic growth over the long run.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Country, Hurt

  Barack Obama's Remarks on the Economy in Osawatomie, Kansas, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. December 6, 2011.

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• The best ideas start as conversations.

  Jonathan Ive

  Design, Conversation

  "DM25 What Next for Design? with Jonathan Ive". Interview with Deyan Sudjic, designmuseum.org. November 12, 2014.

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• There are 9 rejected ideas for every idea that works.

  Jonathan Ive

  Design, Rejected

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• Perhaps it is even a good idea to stir up a rivalry between conceptual and imaginative activity. In any case, one will encounter nothing but disappointments if he intends to make them cooperate. The image can not provide matter for a concept. By giving stability to the image, the concept would stifle its life.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Disappointment, Giving, Imagination

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• In my early life my mother tried to create a nurturing environment in which my mind could play. Her big rule was "Never lose in your imagination." She told me that thoughts were things and that I would become the thing I thought of most. This kind of empowerment is crucial to creative thinking.

  Joey Reiman

  Mother, Thinking, Play

  Joey Reiman (2001). “Thinking for a Living: Creating Ideas That Revitalize Your Business, Career, and Life”, p.141, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• One of the great things about being ignorant is that I often think my ideas are original. It's a wonderful feeling. That's why I try to avoid any knowledge that would spoil the sensation. Sometimes it isn't easy. People keep hurling knowledge at me, and I can't always duck.

  Scott Adams

  Knowledge, Thinking, Ducks

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• The approach of intellect or noesis will forever be an effete and limited sort of thing by contrast with the vigor and color of gnosis; but in academia there is virtually nothing but noetic minds to be found, and the very idea of gnosis is alien and untranslatable, not to mention discreditable.

  Kenny Smith

  Education, Color, Gnosis

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• Finding your entrepreneurial spirit and making it strong is more important than the idea or business you are developing.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Strong, Important, Spirit

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• Generally it's not a good idea to wear Banana Republic - type khaki journalist clothes in a war zone. You might look too much like something that's supposed to be shot, such as a journalist.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, War, Clothes

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.249, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• We moved there a year ago, just as a weekend place. Then we decided to move out of London completely. We will eventually have to work it out a bit more, because you can't have a little boy living with his sisters like that, can you? But we like the idea of closeness.

  Linda McCartney

  Moving, Weekend, Boys

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• The greatest thing on earth is a good idea!

  Earl Nightingale

  Earth, Good Ideas

  Earl Nightingale (1969). “This is Earl Nightingale”, Doubleday Books

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• The most powerful thing in the world is an idea.

  David O. McKay

  Powerful, World, Enchanted

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• The greatest events of an age are its best thoughts. Thought finds its way into action.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Age, Events, Way

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• One single idea may have greater weight than all the men, animals, and machines for a century.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Animal, Men, Machines

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• We shall succeed only so far as we continue to undertake “the intolerable labor of thought” — that most distasteful of all our activities.

  Learned Hand

  Political, Succeed, Labor

  "The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses".

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• If I were asked to give the best idea of which I am capable, it would be that we should get out of the junk business and then start laying up treasures in heaven.

  Sterling W Sill

  Giving, Heaven, Junk

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• A thinking man is the worst enemy the Prince of Darkness can have; every time such an one announces himself, I doubt not there runs a shudder through the nether empire; and new emissaries are trained with new tactics, to, if possible, entrap and hoodwink and handcuff him.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Running, Men, Thinking

  Thomas Carlyle (1834). “Fraser's Magazine”, p.191

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• A sure sign of failure for a startup is when someone sends me logo-embroidered polo shirts. If your people are at shows and in public, it's okay to buy for your own employees, but if you really think people are going to wear your branded polo when they're out and about, you are mistaken and have no idea how to spend your money.

  Mark Cuban

  Inspiring, Success, Business

  "How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It". Book by Mark Cuban, November 20, 2011.

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• I was surprised that my wife thought it was a good idea, then again with my agent, another woman, then my editor, another woman - in spite of the fact that all three of them reacted positively I still have this fear.

  Michael Chabon

  Editors, Wife, Three

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