Ideas Quotes - Page 39

• I relate to the feeling that Da Vinci was often plagued by the idea that what he did wasn't good enough, that he was his harshest critic. He'd sometimes destroy what he was working on.

  David S. Goyer

  Feelings, Sometimes, Good Enough

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• Literature was intended to be dangerous. Art was meant to be dangerous. Ideas were nothing if they were not dangerous.

  Timothy Findley

  Art, Dangerous Ideas, Literature

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• All of our days are numbered. We cannot afford to be idle. To act on a bad idea is better than to not act at all, because the worth of an idea never becomes apparent until you do it.

  Nick Cave

  Idle, Bad Ideas

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• If you're trying to live life, really live it, you should, in my opinion, try to expand all the aspects of your life. Open yourself to new ideas and new things even if you find you don't like them in the end - but at least knowing them has taken you that much further along into being a more experienced, more well-rounded person in this world.

  Josh Barnett

  Live Life, Taken, Knowing

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• Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing.

  Joseph Priestley

  Doctrine, Association, Cases

  Joseph Priestley (1777). “The Doctrine of Philofophical Neceffity Illustrated: Being an Appendix to the Difquifitions Relating to Matter and Spirit. To which is Added an Anfwer to the Letters on Materialism, and on Hartley's Theory of the Mind [by Joseph Perington].”, p.36

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• So for every day that you're on this earth, for every minute that you have, the whole idea is doing nothing less than exactly what you feel you're supposed to do and squeezing every last drop out of life every day, regardless of the difficulties or trials that you face.

  Ryan Tedder

  Trials, Earth, Doing Nothing

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• That’s the key to new and good ideas; they come from having a very broad and multidisciplinary range of interests.

  Robin Chase

  Keys, Range, Broads

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• As commonly understood, creationism involves belief in an earth formed only about ten thousand years ago, an interpretation of the Bible that is still very popular. For the record, I have no reason to doubt that the universe is the billions of years old that physicists say it is. Further, I find the idea of common descent (that all organisms share a common ancestor) fairly convincing, and have no particular reason to doubt it.

  Michael Behe

  Years, Doubt, Records

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• The best shows have a clear idea of what they want to achieve, where the performers have the ability to disrupt normality and engage directly with audiences of all ages. A company who can do just that (apparently effortlessly) is dotComedy.

  Lyn Gardner

  Age, Want, Achieve

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• Happiness is your real nature. You identify with yourself with the body and mind, feel it's limitations, and suffer. Realize your true self in order to open the store of happiness. That true self is the reality, the Supreme Truth, which is the self of all the world you now see, the self of all the selves, the One real, the Supreme, the Eternal self - as distinct from the ego or the bodily idea for the self.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Real, Self, Order

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• To be an American is not...a matter of blood; it is a matter of an idea--and history is the image of that idea.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Blood, Matter

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• My ideas come when I least expect it, so I've always got to have a studio nearby or close by somewhere.

  Akon

  Studios

  Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. November 12, 2008.

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• I realized ceativity is a renewable resource. You never run out of good ideas

  Biz Stone

  Running, Renewable Resources, I Realized

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• I'm open for possibilities. I'm open for choices. I always welcome new ideas. I'm always eager to learn. I'm never going to close my mind from learning.

  Cesar Millan

  Choices, Mind, Welcome

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• Altermodern is an in-progress redefinition of modernity in the era of globalisation, stressing the experience of wandering in time, space and mediums. The term 'altermodern has its roots in the idea of 'other-ness (Latin alter = 'other, with English connotation of 'different) and suggests a multitude of possibilities, of alternatives to a single route. It suggests that the historical period defined by postmodernism is coming to an end, symbolised by global financial crises.

  Nicolas Bourriaud

  Stress, Latin, Roots

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• The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Age, Crowded, Originals

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• I have ideas whirring around my head all the time.

  Timbaland

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• I don't hear record companies coming up with any good ideas or suggestions. Historically, if it ain't their idea, it ain't no good, so you got that to contend with.

  Levon Helm

  Suggestions, Records, Company

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• Often, when you've reached a very high level of achievement, you almost become paralyzed by the idea that anything you might do might be imperfect. Perfection is just the striving, the effort, the struggle, but it's hard to remember that.

  Gelsey Kirkland

  Struggle, Perfection, Achievement

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• I want to know which idea you're going to kill yourself trying to make successful, not which ideas have crossed your idle mind.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Successful, Mind, Trying

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• Well, you got to remember, bin Laden killed 3,000 Americans and, in some ways, he and his ideology killed tens of thousands of his fellow Muslims, including Pakistanis. I understand that that was provocative and complicated for Pakistan, but only if you accept the idea that he was an acceptable member of Pakistani society.

  Sebastian Junger

  Pakistan, Way, Remember

  "Journalist Sebastian Junger". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. June 10, 2011.

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• I can’t explain how it is I keep having new ideas. But one book inevitably follows another. It is my way of exploring the known, the remembered, and the imagined, the literary triad of which all stories are made.

  Virginia Hamilton

  Book, Stories, Way

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• An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood in order to become the carrier of an idea

  Hans Hofmann

  Expression, Order, Quality

  Hans Hofmann, Sara T. Weeks, Bartlett H. Hayes (1967). “Search for the Real: And Other Essays”, p.64, MIT Press

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• Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  May, Physicality

  Irvin D. Yalom (2012). “Love's Executioner: And Other Tales of Psychotherapy”, p.15, Basic Books

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• I like the night, I have clearer ideas in the dark.

  Serge Gainsbourg

  Dark, Night

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