Ideas Quotes - Page 29

• But I've got a lot of ideas, I bought me a ranch in Florida and I still have my farm in Ashland City, Tennessee so I'm gonna spend a little time at each one of those places and you'll probably hear some more songs out of me.

  Mel Tillis

  Song, Florida, Cities

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• I don't think they knew exactly where they were going with the character, but they lay those stories out ahead of time, so they had some idea where they wanted it to go.

  David Selby

  Character, Thinking, Ghouls

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• And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so.

  Ed Miliband

  Equality, Thinking, Government

  "Labour conference: Ed Miliband speech in full". www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2010.

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• In academic life, false ideas are merely false and useless ones can be fun to play with. In political life, false ideas can ruin the lives of millions and useless ones can waste precious resources. An intellectual's responsibility for his ideas is to follow their consequences wherever they may lead. A politician's responsibility is to master those consequences and prevent them from doing harm. Michael Ignatieff, a former professor at Harvard and contributing writer for the magazine, is a member of Canada's Parliament and deputy leader of the Liberal Party.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Fun, War, Party

  "Getting Iraq Wrong". www.nytimes.com. August 5, 2007.

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• One is not unpopular because he uses peculiar expressions; that just so happens; such terms become a fad, and by and by everybody, down to the last simpleton, uses them. But a person who follows through an idea in his mind is, and always will be, essentially unpopular. That is why Socrates was unpopular, though he did not use any special terms, for to grasp and hold his 'ignorance' requires greater vital effort than understanding the whole of Hegel's philosophy.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Philosophy, Ignorance, Expression

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• Command any idea to clothe itself in form.

  Neville Goddard

  Positive, Law Of Attraction, Form

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• Do you want your life to truly take off? Then change your idea about it. About you. Think, speak and act as the God You Are.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Spiritual, Thinking, Law Of Attraction

  Neale Donald Walsch (1996). “Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.64, Penguin

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• When every young man refuses to go to war, you will have peace. You do not defend any idea with violence.

  Jane Roberts

  Spiritual, Peace, War

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• I've heard some tunes in recent years that were pretty close to that same idea. The idea was you turn on the radio and you want to hear some music and up comes a commercial.

  Mose Allison

  Years, Tunes, Want

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• I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Political, Intuition, Moved

  V. S. Naipaul (2012). “Literary Occasions: Essays”, p.201, Pan Macmillan

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• Many ideas happen to us. We have intuition, we have feeling, we have emotion, all of that happens, we don't decide to do it. We don't control it.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Feelings, Intuition, Emotion

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• It was a bad idea, because I think that any government reorganization has to come in relatively small bites, or else you get indigestion.

  Warren Rudman

  Thinking, Government, Reorganization

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• Government by idea tends to take in everything, to make the whole of society obedient to the idea. Spaces not so governed are unconquered, beyond the border, unconverted, a future danger.

  Lord Acton

  Government, Space, Borders

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• But our society - unlike most in the world - presupposes that freedom and liberty are in a frame of reference that makes the individual, not government, the keeper of his tastes, beliefs, and ideas. That is the philosophy of the First Amendment; and it is this article of faith that sets us apart from most nations in the world.

  William O. Douglas

  Philosophy, Government, Liberty

  "Paris Adult Theatre I v. Slaton, 413 U.S. 49". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. June 21, 1973.

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• It is now well established that the Constitution protects the right to receive information and ideas. ... This right to receive information and ideas, regardless of their social worth, ... is fundamental to our free society.

  Thurgood Marshall

  Government, Fundamentals, Information

  Thurgood Marshall, Mark V. Tushnet (2001). “Thurgood Marshall: His Speeches, Writings, Arguments, Opinions, and Reminiscences”, p.386, Chicago Review Press

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• The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing, not because they have a concern for what is good for the country. A better educated electorate might change the reason many persons vote. If children were forced to learn about the Constitution, about how government works, about how this nation came into being, about taxes and about how government forever threatens the cause of liberty perhaps we wouldn't see so many foolish ideas coming out of the mouths of silly old men.

  Lyn Nofziger

  Country, Children, Silly

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• The basis of the First Amendment is the hypothesis that speech can rebut speech, propaganda will answer propaganda, free debate of ideas will result in the wisest governmental policies.

  Fred M. Vinson

  Government, Firsts, Answers

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• It was not simply out of a spirit of contradiction that I exposed a light source to magnetic forces. The idea came to me during an investigation of the effect discovered by Kerr on light reflected by magnetic mirrors.

  Pieter Zeeman

  Mirrors, Light, Spirit

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• I don't think you can get an idea of what Israel is like until you get here. People don't realize what a great place it is.

  Paul Anka

  Thinking, Israel, People

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• The human MIND seems to work best in the presence of reality. The brain that contains the problem probably also contains the solution. IF the conditions are right, the huge intelligence of the human being surfaces. IDEAS seem to come from nowhere & sometimes STUN US.

  Nancy Kline

  Reality, Brain, Mind

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• You can indeed be aware of your body, but you can also be aware of your mind - you can right now notice all the thoughts and ideas and images floating in front of the mind's inward eye. You can, in other words, experience your mind, be aware of your mind. And it's very important to experience your mind directly, cleanly, intensely, because only by bringing awareness to the mind can you begin to transcend the mind and be free of its limitations.

  Ken Wilber

  Eye, Mind, Important

  Ken Wilber (1998). “The Essential Ken Wilber”, p.85, Shambhala Publications

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• By now, the corporations that dominate our media, like alcoholic fat cats, treat this situation as theirs by right... Their concept of a diversity of views is the full range of politics and social values from center to far right. The American audience, having been exposed to a narrowing range of ideas over the decades, often assumes that what they see and hear in the major media is all there is. It is no way to maintain a lively marketplace of ideas, which is to say it is no way to maintain a democracy.

  Ben Bagdikian

  Cat, Social Values, Views

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• By the time I actually recorded Bitter Tears I carried a heavy load of sadness and outrage; I felt every word of those songs... I expected there to be trouble with that album, and there was.... when it was released, many radio stations wouldn't play it.... The very idea of unconventional or even original ideas ending up on "country" radio in the late 1990s is absurd.

  Johnny Cash

  Country, Song, Sadness

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• The attitude and capacity of the factory, the old metal table and the new ideas of the wooden furniture quickly and naturally suggested the possibility of metal furniture.

  Donald Judd

  Attitude, Tables, Furniture

  Donald Judd (1987). “Complete Writings, 1975-1986”

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• Hitch was interested in what I had to offer, like one of my background ideas for Norman's upbringing.

  Joseph Stefano

  Hiking, Backgrounds, Offers

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