Ideas Quotes - Page 38

• The fact is one thing and the idea about the fact is another.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Facts, One Thing, Semantics

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2013). “The first and last freedom”, p.364, Rajpal & Sons

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• By mandating an even higher minimum, the living wage prices even more people out of work. The people who push these cockamamie ideas never seem to ask why any employer would hire someone at $8.23 if that person's services are only valued in the marketplace at, say, $5.00.

  Lawrence Reed

  People, Employers, Higher

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• In short, what the living wage is really about is not living standards, or even economics, but morality. Its advocates are basically opposed to the idea that wages are a market price-determined by supply and demand, the same as the price of apples or coal. And it is for that reason, rather than the practical details, that the broader political movement of which the demand for a living wage is the leading edge is ultimately doomed to failure: For the amorality of the market economy is part of its essence, and cannot be legislated away.

  Paul Krugman

  Essence, Apples, Political

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• People are impatient. They want things to happen overnight, and have no idea of the circumstances and situations that can surround an individual at times.

  Rohit Sharma

  People, Want, Impatient

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• I think people love to attach themselves to the idea of an overnight success. That may be true about me.

  Darren Criss

  Thinking, People, May

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• ...I am exceedingly anxious that this Union, the Constitution, and the liberties of the people shall be perpetuated in accordance with the original idea for which that struggle was made, and I shall be most happy indeed if I shall be an humble instrument in the hands of the Almighty, and of this, his almost chosen people, for perpetuating the object of that great struggle.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Struggle, Humble, Hands

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.236, Wildside Press LLC

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• How many times do we all have to do this? Get up, go to school, again? Before everyone admits it's a crap idea?

  Louise Rennison

  School, Get Up, Crap

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• I like the idea that I can talk to any teenage girls. You know, in a language that makes sense to them.

  Louise Rennison

  Girl, Teenage, Language

  "Author of the month: Louise Rennison" by Dina Rabinovitch, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2004.

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• If it weren't for received ideas, the publishing industry wouldn't have any ideas at all.

  Donald E. Westlake

  Publishing, Industry, Ifs

  The Book Reporter interview, www.bookreporter.com. April 21, 2000.

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• I do not believe in God, but I believe God is man’s greatest idea. Those incapable of religious feeling or those (like hard-core gay activists) who profane sacred ground do not have the imagination to educate the young. … Until the left comes to its senses about the cultural power of religion, the right will continue to broaden its appeal.

  Camille Paglia

  Religious, Believe, Gay

  "Vamps and Tramps". Book by Camille Paglia, 1994.

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• We are what we love. We are the things, the people, the ideas we spend our days with. They center us, they drive us, they define us to our very core.
  Without them, we are empty.

  Daisy Whitney

  People, Juicy, Empty

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• A great idea solves multiple problems at the same time.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Problem, Multiple, Solve

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• I've always been fascinated by the idea that there's no such thing as evil; it's all in your point of view. To one group a suicide bomber is the antichrist and to one he's a hero.

  Eli Roth

  Suicide, Hero, Views

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• Poems have ideas. The ideas of poems come out of their emotions and their emotions are carried on images.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Emotion

  E.L. Doctorow (2013). “Ragtime, The March, and Homer & Langley: Three Bestselling Novels”, p.635, Random House

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• People have the idea that an image must stand for something else, that the real meaning needs to be described with language. Instead it is the image itself that is the meaning.

  Mark Ryden

  Art, Real, People

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• I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.

  Lasse Hallstrom

  Actors, Levels, Want

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• We're all the sons of God, or children of the Is, or ideas of the Mind, or however else you want to say it.

  Richard Bach

  Children, Son, Mind

  Richard Bach (2012). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.39, Delta

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• To lead a successful life, then, it's a good idea to work out what you really want. Then get together some plans. Then set some goals.

  John C. Parkin

  Successful, Work Out, Goal

  John C. Parkin (2010). “F**k It: The Ultimate Spiritual Way”, p.107, Hay House, Inc

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• Great ideas can come from anywhere. There are no titles around an idea.

  Steve Stoute

  Titles, Great Idea

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• I'm always busy. You know, the more I do, the more ideas I have—that's the funny thing. The brain is a muscle, and I'm a kind of body builder.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Funny Things, Brain, Body

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• It is a good idea for everyone who does not have contra-indications to receive a flu shot.

  Amy Johnson

  Doe, Flu, Shots

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• After you produce you can select. you can curate. you can censor. But for now, have bad ideas, lots and lots of bad ideas.

  Seth Godin

  Select, Produce, Bad Ideas

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• Normally I start with a plot, and write a synopsis, and the ideas come from the construction.

  Jo Nesbo

  Writing, Plot, Construction

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• A human group transforms itself into a crowd when it suddenly responds to a suggestion rather than to reasoning, to an image rather than to an idea, to an affirmation rather than to proof, to the repetition of a phrase rather than to arguments, to prestige rather than to competence.

  Jean Francois Revel

  Suggestions, Groups, Phrases

  Jean François Revel (1991). “The Flight from Truth: The Reign of Deceit in the Age of Information”, Random House (NY)

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• I like to be right. I try not to miss the big ideas, forget the little ones, and try to get them right. End of job description.

  Jeremy Grantham

  Jobs, Missing, Trying

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