Ideas Quotes - Page 36

• The real truth about children is they don't speak the language very well. They're physically uncoordinated. And they are ignorant of our elaborate ideas about right and wrong.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Children, Real, Ignorant

  "The Bachelor Home Companion. A practical guide to keeping house like a pig". Book by P. J. O'Rourke, 1986.

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• All too often too often we try to push, pull, outline and control our ideas instead of letting them grow organically. The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.

  Julia Cameron

  Heart, Creativity, Creative

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.248, Souvenir Press

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• You look back in time to when there was slavery and you think 'how did people even remotely believe that this was a good idea?'.It's incomprehensible for us to think of what the mindset was 100 or 200 years ago. I hope to make the present as incomprehensible to the future as the past is to us.

  Stefan Molyneux

  Believe, Past, Thinking

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• Liberal learning is both a safeguard against false ideas of freedom and a source of true ones.

  Alfred Whitney Griswold

  Source, True Ones

  Alfred Whitney Griswold (1957). “In the university tradition”

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• The idea that all the words in Scripture are God's words in such a way that to disbelieve or disobey any word of Scripture is to disbelieve or disobey God.

  Wayne Grudem

  Way, Scripture

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• The idea that trials are a search for the truth is just a myth. Trials are a search for that which the jury will believe is the truth.

  David Rosenfelt

  Believe, Trials, Truth Is

  David Rosenfelt (2011). “One Dog Night: An Andy Carpenter Novel”, p.99, Minotaur Books

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• You persuade a man only insofar as you can talk his language by speech, gesture, tonality, order, image, attitude, idea, identifying your ways with his

  Kenneth Burke

  Attitude, Men, Order

  Kenneth Burke (1969). “A Rhetoric of Motives”, p.55, Univ of California Press

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• One night I had an idea while I was at the movies: to photograph the film itself. I tried to imagine photographing an entire feature film with my camera. I could already picture the projection screen making itself visible as a white rectangle. In my imagination, this would appear as a glowing, white rectangle; it would come forward from the projection surface and illuminate the entire theater. This idea struck me as being very interesting, mysterious, and even religious.

  Hiroshi Sugimoto

  Religious, Night, Glowing

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• Scientists learn about the world in three ways: They analyze statistical patterns in the data, they do experiments, and they learn from the data and ideas of other scientists. The recent studies show that children also learn in these ways.

  Alison Gopnik

  Children, Data, Three

  "We All Start Out As Scientists, But Some of Us Forget" by Chris Mooney, Indre Viskontas, www.motherjones.com. November 8, 2013.

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• I think people get fixated on the example of an idea.

  Joshua Homme

  Thinking, People, Example

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• Craft takes time, and therefore it is luxury. You cannot do an amazingly well-made garment without taking time—not just the time it takes to make something but also the time it took the maker to come up with the idea. That is all luxury, and that has been lost because were trying to make things faster and faster, cheaper and cheaper. The consumer tends to lose track of what luxury is.

  Isabel Toledo

  Luxury, Track, Trying

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• Honestly, I think the key () has been, treat every assignment as if it’s your first one, you know? I think there is a misconception, especially that students have and I really make a point when I speak at schools to talk about the fact that you never really arrive. You are always working towards something but you never stop. I think there is this crazy idea that you get somewhere and then everything is cool.

  Dan Winters

  Crazy, School, Thinking

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• Photography is a tool to negotiate our idea of reality. Thus it is the responsibility of photographers to not contribute with anaesthetic images but rather to provide images that shake consciousness.

  Joan Fontcuberta

  Photography, Responsibility, Reality

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• You must know the big ideas in the big disciplines, and use them routinely - all of them, not just a few. Most people are trained in one model - economics, for example - and try to solve all problems in one way. You know the old saying: to the man with a hammer, the world looks like a nail. This is a dumb way of handling problems.

  Charlie Munger

  Men, Discipline, People

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• The idea of sitting at home, not making music, just makes me want to throw up.

  Liam Gallagher

  Home, Sitting, Want

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• A pretty woman is a Christmas tree,' my mother told me in the airport. This fella is hanging things on my branches as his gaze sweeps from my face all the way down my body to my hips and then back to my face. Ideas fly from his widened eyes and land on me like teeny, decorative burdens. He is giving me shyness, maybe, some book smarts, and a certain yielding sweetness in bed. The oil-slick eyes get me, and I find myself hanging a few ornaments myself, giving him deft hands and a sense of humor.

  Joshilyn Jackson

  Mother, Smart, Book

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• High Concept means a book or a film whose core idea can be stated in a single sentence, such as Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito are twins. Or, Arnold is pregnant.

  Martin Cruz Smith

  Book, Mean, Twins

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• I want to write, I want to sing. I want to do the same thing for others, have my music, hopefully do that for others one day, not realizing what I sort of had to climb. I had an idea a little bit, but I think that I underestimated the whole thing.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Writing, Thinking, One Day

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• To me, I took a militant attitude towards sounds. I wanted sounds to be a metaphor, that they could be as free as a human being might be free. That was my idea about sound. It still is, that they should breathe ... not to be used for the vested interest of an idea. I feel that music should have no vested interests, that you shouldn't know how it's made, that you shouldn't know if there's a system, that you shouldn't know anything about it ... except that it's some kind of life force that to some degree really changes your life ... if you're into it.

  Morton Feldman

  Attitude, Should Have, Sound

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• I hate the idea that you ought to read the whole of anybody.

  Robert Frost

  Hate, Ought, Whole

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• Just because there's a trillion places to put an idea doesn't mean you don't need an idea in the first place

  Ben Richards

  Mean, Needs, Firsts

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• I have seen entrepreneurs ask for hundreds of millions of dollars on a concept and try to sell because of 'their passion' for an idea. If the idea is that good, why wouldn't I cut you out and hire someone who is just as passionate for much, much less?

  Kevin Harrington

  Passion, Cutting, Entrepreneur

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• Cut in dressmaking is like grammar in language. A good design should be like a well made sentence and it should only express one idea at a time.

  Charles James

  Cutting, Design, Language

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• The idea of karma is that you continually get the teaching that you need to open your heart.

  Pema Chodron

  Karma, Teaching, Heart

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• My best idea was to not accept my wife's negative reaction when I asked her to marry me.

  Michael Eisner

  Wife, Negative, Marry Me

  "Michael Eisner: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. March 18, 2009.

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