Ideas Quotes - Page 23

• It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway.

  Norman Mailer

  Writing, Wife, Brilliant

  Norman Mailer, Michael Lennon (1988). “Conversations with Norman Mailer”, p.90, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• One should be willing to throw away a dozen ideas to come up with a good one, just as one should throw away a dozen words to come up with the right one.

  James Gunn

  Dozen, Brilliant, Should

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• We had to do the same thing here. To top that sequel was quite a task. Mike had a couple of good conceptual humour and character ideas, which got me back into it.

  Jay Roach

  Couple, Character, Tasks

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

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• The other thing that I started doing for myself was, I went through my diary of ideas that I keep and made sure that the translation of the comic to the movie was good.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Diaries, Brilliant, Comic

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• I fancy that no good ideas upon that campaign will be mentioned at any time that did not receive their share of consideration by General Lee.

  James Longstreet

  Campaigns, Fancy, Brilliant

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• We wanted to be as expansive as possible to make sure we didn't preclude some good ideas.

  John Poindexter

  Brilliant, Wanted, Brilliant Ideas

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• In the past, it was easier to believe in my own effectiveness. If I worked hard, with good colleagues and good ideas, we could make a difference. But now, I sincerely doubt that.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Believe, Past, Differences

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2010). “Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time (Large Print 16pt)”, p.327, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Well they have an input into policy but in the end governments are elected to put together policy but the good thing about the Wentworth Group is that you know you've got 11 pretty capable people with a lot of good ideas.

  John Anderson

  Government, People, Together

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• There really was nothing like it at the time. We had good ideas for implementation, so we proceeded. I think it was an excellent solution to the reliability issues with existing search engines.

  Shawn Fanning

  Thinking, Issues, Reliability

  "Q&A: Napster creator Shawn Fanning". Interview with Giancarlo Varanini, March 3, 2000.

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• I think a good MP is someone who cares for their community and becomes their champion, which is why I will make my home in any seat I am lucky enough to be selected for. Looks play no part in the equation, what matters is your ideas and connecting them to the electorate.

  Adam Rickitt

  Home, Thinking, What Matters

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• I wanted all my visits to be official. When I sent the pass back with a note, I had no idea it would antagonize the president. I found out years later that it did.

  Louis J. Freeh

  Years, Sea, President

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• The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.

  H. L. Mencken

  Punishment, Dubious, Poverty

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.265, Knopf

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• There is only one Art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. ... Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.

  Vaclav Havel

  Art, Political, Citizens

  "Living in Truth". Book by Vaclav Havel, 1986.

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• Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge. It is in the darker. It is in the darker regions of science that great men are recognized; they are marked by ideas which light up phenomena hitherto obscure and carry science forward.

  Claude Bernard

  Knowledge, Science, Men

  Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.70, Courier Corporation

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• All the big ideas for getting us onto a lower carbon trajectory involve a lot of people doing a lot of work, and that's been missing from the conversation. This is a great time to go to the next step and ask, well, who's going to do the work? Who's going to invest in the new technologies? What are ways to get communities wealth, improved health, and expanded job opportunities out of this improved transition?

  Van Jones

  Jobs, Work, Technology

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• Abandon fancy theologies and imaginary ideas and do some ordinary daily work... {Engage in this work with} unswerving kindness and unending patience.

  Laozi

  Kindness, Work, Ordinary

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• I tried to take seriously the idea that if you tortured language you might arrive at some new truth. Later it became clear to me that I was retreading ground by fighting the literary battles of the 1950s and 1960s, and that I was actually a bit bored by some of the books I professed to love.

  Hari Kunzru

  Love, Book, Fighting

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• America, this is our moment. This is our time. Our time to turn the page on the policies of the past. Our time to bring new energy and new ideas to the challenges we face. Our time to offer a new direction for the country we love.

  Barack Obama

  Love, Country, Past

  Democratic Nomination Victory Speech, delivered 3 June 2008, Saint Paul, Minnesota

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• The American humorist sat on his couch suffering thoughts of her, trying to figure out how to win back her affections, wondering what had happened between them or just tumbling head-over-heels down into romantic oblivion where the image of a remembered kiss provokes bottomless despair and makes death seem like the right idea.He experienced the basics of love ended.

  Richard Brautigan

  Love, Kissing, Winning

  Richard Brautigan (1976). “Sombrero Fallout”, Simon & Schuster

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• Success in the long run has less to do with finding the best idea, organizational structure, or business model for an enterprise, than with discovering what matters to us as individuals.

  Jerry I. Porras

  Success, Running, What Matters

  "Success Built to Last: Creating A Life That Matters". Book by Jerry I. Porras, Stewart Emery and Mark Thompson, 2006.

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• Who but a physicist, in the research lab or the corporation, could mix and match multiple ideas, models, technologies from different disciplines and thrive on change and new ideas...?

  Robert Gibbs

  Technology, Discipline, Different

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• I think, however, that there isn't any solution to this problem of education other than to realize that the best teaching can be done only when there is a direct individual relationship between a student and a good teacher - a situation in which the student discusses the ideas, thinks about the things, and talks about the things. It's impossible to learn very much by simply sitting in a lecture, or even by simply doing problems that are assigned. But in our modern times we have so many students to teach that we have to try to find some substitute for the ideal.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Teacher, Teaching, Thinking

  Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands (2013). “The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Desktop Edition Volume I”, p.5, Basic Books

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• We must always bear in mind that we are not going to be free, but are free already. Every idea that we are bound is a delusion.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Freedom, Mind, Bears

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.949, Manonmani Publishers

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• This process, this method necessary to man's survival and prosperity upon the earth, has often been derided as unduly or exclusively "materialistic." But it should be clear that what has happened in this activity proper to man's nature is a fusion of "spirit" and matter; man's mind, using the ideas it has learned, directs his energy in transforming and reshaping matter into ways to sustain and advance his wants and his life. Behind every "produced" good, behind every man-made transformation of natural resources, is an idea directing the effort, a manifestation of man's spirit.

  Murray Rothbard

  Freedom, Men, Effort

  Murray N. Rothbard (2015). “The Ethics of Liberty”, p.31, NYU Press

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• My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first, so I thought before I got to Vienna I could do with a little training in Paris.

  Harry Mathews

  Play, Paris, Training

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