Ideas Quotes - Page 34

• The thing that excites me, and the thing that excited me about Twitter, is the idea of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight.

  Biz Stone

  Moving, Bird, Flight

  "Twitter Cofounder Biz Stone Interview at Wisdom 2.0" by Soren Gordhamer, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 5, 2012.

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• Books are good but they are only maps. Reading a book by direction of a man I read that so many inches of rain fell during the year. Then he told me to take the book and squeeze it between my hands. I did so and not a drop of water came from it. It was the idea only that the book conveyed. So we can get good from books, from the temple, from the church, from anything, so long as it leads us onward and upward.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Rain, Book, Reading

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.920, Manonmani Publishers

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• If religion and life depend upon books or upon the existence of any prophet whatsoever, then perish all religion and books! Religion is in us. No books or teachers can do more than help us to find it, and even without them we can get all truth within. You have gratitude for books and teachers without bondage to them; and worship your Guru as God, but do not obey him blindly; love him all you will, but think for yourself. No blind belief can save you, work out your own salvation. Have only one idea of God - that He is an eternal help.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Teacher, Gratitude, Book

  Swami Vivekananda (1953). “Complete Works”

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• Captain Crawford didn't like the idea of any kind of murder, but he went at it patiently and honestly and with none of the stupidity and bombast and rubber-hose techniques that Los Angeles crime fiction writers had led me to expect. I'd gotten the impression that unless a gifted amateur in love with the lady got himself almost beaten to a pulp and practically inside the lethal gas chamber before he unmasked the venal and brutalized constabulary, any innocent bystander they could get their hands on was a gone duck.

  Leslie Ford

  Bystanders, Hands, Ducks

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• He was telling the students about the hypnotic technique of using quotes in a conversation. An idea is more palatable ... if it comes from someone else. The unconscious thinks in terms of content and structure. If you introduce a pattern with the words, 'My friend was telling me,' the critical part of her mind shuts off.

  Neil Strauss

  Thinking, Mind, Technique

  Neil Strauss (2011). “The Game”, p.117, Canongate Books

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• Afterward, there was some debate as to whether we'd actually "done it properly," which gives you some idea of the awesome skill and artful dexterity of my lovemaking technique.

  David Nicholls

  Skills, Giving, Technique

  David Nicholls (2004). “A Question of Attraction: A Novel”, p.83, Villard

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• Guy Nearing told us it's a good idea when hunting mushrooms to have a pleasant goal, a waterfall for instance, and, having reached it, to return another way. When, however, we're obliged to go and come back by the same path, returning we notice mushrooms we hadn't noticed going out.

  John Cage

  Hunting, Mushrooms, Goal

  John Cage (2012). “El libro de las setas”, p.56, Univ de Castilla La Mancha

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• Inspiration is being motivated by a person or idea. Motivation is being inspired by an object. When people are inspired, they don't need motivation.

  Thomas Leonard

  Inspirational, Motivation, People

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• I'd like to get married because I like the idea of a man being required by law to sleep with me every night.

  Carrie Snow

  Sleep, Night, Men

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• Progress is often just a good idea away.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Progress, Good Ideas

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• That which the sciences can add to the privileges of the human race has never been more marked than at the present moment. ... The air seems to become as accessible to him as the waters.... The name of Montgolfier, the names of those hardy navigators of the new element, will live through time; but who among us, on seeing these superb experiments, has not felt his soul elevated, his ideas expanded, his mind enlarged?

  Jean Sylvain Bailly

  Science, Race, Air

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• You used the word "civilization", which means a set of abstractions, symbols, conventions. Experience tends to be vicarious; emotions are predigested and electrical; ideas become more real than things.

  Jack Vance

  Real, Mean, Civilization

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• In my opinion, nothing has contributed so much to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is a socialist country and that every act of its rulers must be excused, if not imitated. And so for the last ten years, I have been convinced that the destruction of the Soviet myth was essential if we wanted a revival of the socialist movement.

  George Orwell

  Country, Russia, Socialist Countries

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “It is what I think, 1947-1948”, Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd

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• Do angels take the Lord's name in vain? The idea is so ridiculous that we scarcely like to ask the question. ... How dare we do that which angels dare not do? Is it possible for us to argue that that which is forbidden in heaven is praiseworthy on earth?

  George Q. Cannon

  Angel, Names, Heaven

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• I have no idea what I did. I heard people talk about dead leg, shake, change of pace and all that, but I did things without thinking about them.

  Gale Sayers

  Leadership, Sports, Thinking

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• We don't need more stupid ideas.

  John Zerzan

  Stupid, Stupid Ideas, Needs

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• I am grateful for the idea that has used me.

  Alfred Adler

  Grateful, Used, I Am Grateful

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• If you accept the idea that photographers, or some of them, are actually artists, then you have to look at their work less as a document of something than as a personal vision of the world.

  Tod Papageorge

  Artist, Vision, Looks

  Interview with Alec Soth, alecsothblog.wordpress.com. July 11, 2007.

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• Ideas do not always come in a flash but by diligent trial-and-error experiments that take time and thought.

  Charles K. Kao

  Errors, Trial And Error, Trials

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• School of Rock. The best music school anywhere. This whole idea of getting kids not just taking lessons and learning notes and chords, but learning songs and playing with other young musicians, and getting out on stage... I was so impressed that my daughter Cheyenne goes to School of Rock on Long Island.

  Dee Snider

  Daughter, Song, School

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• Your idea of a safe stop is to shank me?!

  Kari Byron

  Safe, Shank

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• I do get obsessed with constantly thinking of ideas, all day long, but that's just how it is.

  Johnny Knoxville

  Thinking, Long, Obsessed

  "Johnny Knoxville and Bam Margera Interview JACKASS 3D". Press conference, collider.com. October 12, 2010.

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• You can kill a thousand; you can bring an end to life; you cannot kill an idea.

  Shimon Peres

  Ends, Thousand

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• Too often, the idea seemed to be that the cost of being part of Europe was being less like Britain. So after years of fighting to defend Europe against attacks from the Eurosceptic right, it would be fatal to retreat into the same arguments and begin the battle anew.

  Douglas Alexander

  Fighting, Years, Europe

  "Labour's mature patriotism over Europe" by Douglas Alexander, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2011.

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• The death of Che Guevara places a responsibility on all revolutionaries of the World to redouble their decision to fight on to the final defeat of Imperialism. That is why in essence Che Guevara is not dead, his ideas are with us.

  Stokely Carmichael

  Responsibility, Fighting, Essence

  "Viva Che!: The Strange Death and Life of Che Guevara". Book by Andrew Sinclair, 2006.

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