Ideas Quotes - Page 34

• If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today.

  Bill Gates

  Taken, People, Patents

  Challenges and Strategy Memo, May 16, 1991.

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• There is no idea that does not carry in itself a possible refutation, no word that does not imply its opposite.

  Marcel Proust

  Opposites, Doe, Refutation

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.941, Wordsworth Editions

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• When the ideas are coming, I don't stop until the ideas stop because that train doesn't come along all the time.

  Dr. Dre

  Train

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Basically you come up with the fictional idea and you start writing that story, but then in order to write it and to make it seem real, you sometimes put your own memories in. Even if it's a character that's very different from you.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Memories, Real, Writing

  "Jeffrey Eugenides on writing in C major". Interview with Carolyn Kellogg, latimesblogs.latimes.com. October 29, 2011.

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• The Here-and-Now demands attention, is more present to us. We dismiss the inner world of our ideas as less important, although most of our immediate physical reality originated only in the mind. The TV, sofa, clock and room, the whole civilisation that contains them once were nothing save ideas.

  Alan Moore

  Reality, Mind, Important

  "What Is Reality?". Proposed text for "Holy Smoke" by Alan Moore, 1999.

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• Be a fearless cook! Try out new ideas and new recipes, but always buy the freshest and finest ingredients, whatever they may be. Furnish your kitchen with the most solid and workmanlike equipment you can find. Keep your knives ever sharp and - toujours bon appetit!

  Julia Child

  Knives, Fearless, Kitchen

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• Rejection is good. Putting others ahead of self, giving things away. Success, money, power, fame, happiness, friends; any kind of pleasure - giving it all away, in the pyramid scheme of life, with the knowledge that everything will be returned, and being satisfied with that knowledge; not with the actual return of things, but the idea of the return of things. There is death.

  Tao Lin

  Pyramid Schemes, Self, Pyramids

  Tao Lin (2007). “Eeeee Eee Eeee: A Novel”, Melville House Pub

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• Suffering occurs when your ideas about how things ought to be don't match how they really are.

  Brad Warner

  Suffering, Ought

  Brad Warner (2015). “Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• I have devoted 30 years of research to how creative people live and work, to make more understandable the mysterious process by which they come up with new ideas and new things. [...] If I had to express in one word what makes their personalities different from others, it's complexity. They show tendencies of thought and action that in most people are segregated. They contain contradictory extremes; instead of being an "individual", each of them is a "multitude".

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Years, People, Personality

  "The Creative Personality". www.psychologytoday.com. July 1, 1996.

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• Divine symbols which have been given to mankind from time to time speak to that forum of truth which is within our hearts, and waken our consciousness to divine ideas entirely beyond words.

  Max Heindel

  Heart, Consciousness, Speak

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• I am a bit of a fundamentalist when it comes to black women's hair. Hair is hair - yet also about larger questions: self-acceptance, insecurity and what the world tells you is beautiful. For many black women, the idea of wearing their hair naturally is unbearable.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Beautiful, Acceptance, Hair

  "Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: 'My new novel is about love, race... and hair'". Interview with Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. April 6, 2013.

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• The idea of holding back certainly didn't come from Scripture.

  Francis Chan

  Scripture, Holding Back

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.91, David C Cook

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• The Spirit works through community. Somebody will have a stupid, screwy idea. That's okay. The point of having creeds and confessions and traditions is to keep us in touch with the obvious errors.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Stupid, Errors, Community

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• A director is a man, therefore he has ideas; he is also an artist, therefore he has imagination. Whether they are good or bad, it seems to me that I have an abundance of stories to tell. And the things I see, the things that happen to me, continually renew the supply.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Artist, Men, Imagination

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm a lazy writer. My idea of heaven is not writing. On the other hand, I'm obviously compulsive about it.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Writing, Hands, Heaven

  "Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies (Art)". Book edited by John Walker, 2001.

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• A big part of the problem that we face today is that our children have been taught at schools that every idea is right, that no one should criticize others positions, no matter how odious.

  Ed Royce

  Children, School, Matter

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• As far as the mechanics go, working with other people on received ideas was for me a very interesting technical problem. I can't say that any of my collaborations engaged my heart, but they engaged the craftsman in me.

  Robert Sheckley

  Heart, People, Interesting

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• The Majesty guitar symbolizes the very reason why I am so proud to be a Music Man artist. I had the idea for this guitar a couple of years ago but it is because of their innovative spirit and dedication to the art of guitar building that it is now a reality. I am so grateful that I am able to collaborate with the best guitar company on the planet and so incredibly proud that together we have created what is to me, the perfect musical instrument for guitar players. I really hope you get a chance to play one and am confident that you will feel the same!

  John Petrucci

  Art, Couple, Grateful

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• Trust and respect are two-way streets. We want the horse to accept us as leaders of the herd, to guide them safely and to provide protection and comfort. In return, they will give us their respect, and willing submission to our ideas about what to do next, and when and where. But this respect can only be based on well deserved trust.

  Walter Zettl

  Horse, Two, Giving

  Walter Zettl (1998). “Dressage in Harmony: From Basic to Grand Prix”, p.33, Trafalgar Square Books

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• Mathematics and art are quite different. We could not publish so many papers that used, repeatedly, the same idea and still command the respect of our colleagues.

  Antoni Zygmund

  Beauty, Art, Different

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• I dislike frontiers, political or intellectual, and I find that ignoring them is an essential catalyst for creative thought. Ideas should flow without hindrance in their natural course.

  Michael Atiyah

  Creativity, Imagination, Creative

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• The simple idea that everyone needs a reasonable amount of challenging work in his or her life, and also a personal life, complete with noncompetitive leisure, has never really taken hold.

  Judith Martin

  Inspirational, Taken, Simple

  Judith Martin (1996). “Common courtesy: in which Miss Manners solves the problem that baffled Mr. Jefferson”

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• Some of the finest moral intuitions come to quite humble people. The visiting of lofty ideas doesn't depend on formal schooling.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Inspirational, Humble, People

  Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price (2001). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”, p.194, David R. Godine Publisher

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• The idea came to me that I was, am, and will be, but perhaps will not become. This did not scare me. There was for me in being an intensity I did not feel in becoming.

  Nina Berberova

  Inspirational, Scare, Becoming

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• I have no idea why people want to watch puppets be the slightly meaner version of the weirdo holding them. It's beyond my comprehension.

  Daniel Tosh

  Funny, People, Watches

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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