Ideas Quotes - Page 36

• You have no idea how long a year is until you’re stone sober.

  Bill Burr

  Years, Long, Stones

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• I have no idea! I have been writing for 35 years and from the beginning up to now the situation's almost the same. I'm kind of an ugly duckling. Always the duckling, never the swan.

  Haruki Murakami

  Writing, Swans, Ugly Duckling

  "Haruki Murakami: 'I'm an outcast of the Japanese literary world'" by Steven Poole, www.theguardian.com. September 13, 2014.

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• I spend a lot of time preparing. I think a lot about what I want to do. I have prep books, little notebooks in which I write everything down before a sitting. Otherwise I would forget my ideas.

  Helmut Newton

  Notebook, Writing, Thinking

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• Change life! Change Society! These ideas lose completely their meaning without producing an appropriate space. A lesson to be learned from soviet constructivists from the 1920s and 30s, and of their failure, is that new social relations demand a new space, and vice-versa.

  Henri Lefebvre

  Life Changing, Lessons To Be Learned, Space

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• My idea of an acceptable person is someone that is ready to accept my ideas.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Accepting, Ready, Persons

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• It is exciting to hear one of your fondest ideas formulated in one fell swoop, better than you could have done yourself.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Done, Exciting, Better Than You

  Jean Baudrillard (2001). “Selected Writings”, p.229, Stanford University Press

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• Taking a look back, one big reqret is, I left Harvard with no real awareness of the awful inequities in the world.  The appalling disparities of health and wealth and opportunity that condemned millions of people to the lives of despair.  I learned a lot here at Harvard about new ideas and economics, and politics.  I got great exposure to the advances being made in the sciences.  But humanities greatest advances are not in its discoveries, but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity.

  Bill Gates

  Real, Opportunity, Discovery

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• There is no idea that does not carry in itself a possible refutation, no word that does not imply its opposite.

  Marcel Proust

  Opposites, Doe, Refutation

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.941, Wordsworth Editions

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• When the ideas are coming, I don't stop until the ideas stop because that train doesn't come along all the time.

  Dr. Dre

  Train

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

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• Be a fearless cook! Try out new ideas and new recipes, but always buy the freshest and finest ingredients, whatever they may be. Furnish your kitchen with the most solid and workmanlike equipment you can find. Keep your knives ever sharp and - toujours bon appetit!

  Julia Child

  Knives, Fearless, Kitchen

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• Suffering occurs when your ideas about how things ought to be don't match how they really are.

  Brad Warner

  Suffering, Ought

  Brad Warner (2015). “Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• I have devoted 30 years of research to how creative people live and work, to make more understandable the mysterious process by which they come up with new ideas and new things. [...] If I had to express in one word what makes their personalities different from others, it's complexity. They show tendencies of thought and action that in most people are segregated. They contain contradictory extremes; instead of being an "individual", each of them is a "multitude".

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Years, People, Personality

  "The Creative Personality". www.psychologytoday.com. July 1, 1996.

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• The Spirit works through community. Somebody will have a stupid, screwy idea. That's okay. The point of having creeds and confessions and traditions is to keep us in touch with the obvious errors.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Stupid, Errors, Community

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• A director is a man, therefore he has ideas; he is also an artist, therefore he has imagination. Whether they are good or bad, it seems to me that I have an abundance of stories to tell. And the things I see, the things that happen to me, continually renew the supply.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Artist, Men, Imagination

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

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• A big part of the problem that we face today is that our children have been taught at schools that every idea is right, that no one should criticize others positions, no matter how odious.

  Ed Royce

  Children, School, Matter

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• As far as the mechanics go, working with other people on received ideas was for me a very interesting technical problem. I can't say that any of my collaborations engaged my heart, but they engaged the craftsman in me.

  Robert Sheckley

  Heart, People, Interesting

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• Mathematics and art are quite different. We could not publish so many papers that used, repeatedly, the same idea and still command the respect of our colleagues.

  Antoni Zygmund

  Beauty, Art, Different

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• I dislike frontiers, political or intellectual, and I find that ignoring them is an essential catalyst for creative thought. Ideas should flow without hindrance in their natural course.

  Michael Atiyah

  Creativity, Imagination, Creative

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• Some of the finest moral intuitions come to quite humble people. The visiting of lofty ideas doesn't depend on formal schooling.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Inspirational, Humble, People

  Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price (2001). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”, p.194, David R. Godine Publisher

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• The idea came to me that I was, am, and will be, but perhaps will not become. This did not scare me. There was for me in being an intensity I did not feel in becoming.

  Nina Berberova

  Inspirational, Scare, Becoming

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• Embedded in this outlook is an idea of the body as a machine, so that illness is seen as a breakdown of the machine, healing involves repairing the broken parts, and a doctor is a kind of mechanic with medications as his or her tools.

  Russell Shorto

  Healing, Doctors, Broken

  Russell Shorto (2008). “Descartes' Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict between Faith and Reason”, p.13, Vintage

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• ...it seemed appropriate that I should develop some kind of illness. This is a good idea when you are at a loose end because everything, up to and including herpes, is better than being bored.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Bored, Kind, Illness

  Jeremy Clarkson (2004). “The world according to Clarkson”

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• I see nothing wrong ethically with the idea of correcting single gene defects through genetic engineering. But I am concerned about any other kind of intervention, for anything else would be an experiment, which would impose our will on future generations and take unreasonable chances with their welfare ... Thus such intervention is beyond the scope of consideration.

  Ian Wilmut

  Engineering, Would Be, Generations

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• Well, part of it is a longstanding belief - it's been in our education establishment at least since the 1930s - that somehow children should be allowed to discover knowledge for themselves, that they should construct their own knowledge. This has surfaced most recently in connection with mathematics instruction, where the idea is that they need to discover how to add for themselves. Rather than being taught how to add, they should construct this knowledge on their own.

  Lynne Cheney

  Children, Discovery, Taught

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• In the future, as in the past, the great ideas [of mathematics] must be simplifying ideas, the creator must always be one who clarifies, for himself, and for others, the most complicated issues of formulas and concepts.

  Andre Weil

  Past, Discovery, Issues

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