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These are ideas. I could say that they just came to me, but it would be more accurate to say that I went to them. Ideas - and new connections between ideas - lead you away from commonly held perceptions of reality. Ideas lead you out here. Ideas lead you into the darkness.


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CLARICE LISPECTOR Ideas come mostly bottoms-up. They come when you have a free flow of ideas and you have people able ...
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GERALD BRENAN Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, ...
GERALD BRENAN You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only...
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MAO ZEDONG The combination of brilliant ideas and entrepreneurial spirit should lead us to a safer and more sec...
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RAM SHRIRAM Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to o...
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NEIL GAIMAN To lead the country does not mean to combine the bad [ideas] of two parties.
BERND PISCHETSRIEDER There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger,...
MICHEL FOUCAULT There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger,...
MICHEL FOUCAULT There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger,...
MICHEL FOUCAULT Ideas must be put to the test. That's why we make things, otherwise they would be no more than i...
ANDY GOLDSWORTHY If you want me to treat your ideas with more respect, get some better ideas.
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BEN SILVERMAN There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger,...
MICHEL FOUCAULT Take the ideas of the masses (scattered and unsystematic ideas) and concentrate them (through study ...
MAO TSE-TUNG You can be funny and say what you mean; these ideas are not mutually exclusive. Some of the best jok...
HARI KONDABOLU I have some ideas on how to fix that. They're not very good ideas, but at least they're idea...
ADAM SAVAGE Worst ideas? Me? Whatever do you mean? There are no bad ideas.
CHRISTIAN AUDIGIER If you steal ideas from one source, that's plagiarism, but if you steal ideas from more than one so...
LAURENDO ALMEIDA I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our futu...
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ALAN ALDA Let us not dwell into past thoughts, worn out ideas, false beliefs. Let them go so that you can crea...
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BRUCE COVILLE God will not just land his precious ideas into your laps because you are a believer, He gives you id...
SUNDAY ADELAJA The more closed your network, the more you hear the same ideas over and again, reaffirming what you ...
WHITNEY JOHNSON I think that many of my ideas are correct, but I'll bet you, before my death other discoveries w...
DONALD JOHANSON There's so much investment capital out there for profitable new technologies. Investors are constant...
BRIAN M. RIEDL When you don't see an actor's face, it forces you to listen to what he has to say. What was importan...
HUGO WEAVING You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.
LEE TREVINO To make the script, you need ideas, and for me a lot of times, a final script is made up of many fra...
DAVID LYNCH You see a lot of good ideas or well-written scripts that are bad ideas.
JOHN MCTIERNAN I always say ideas are like fishing,
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CASEY NEISTAT It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.
EDWIN LAND Its not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.
EDWIN LAND I used to worry that I had a finite supply of ideas, that I should hold on to each of them in case i...
RYAN NORTH At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you'll have to find the inner mo...
BILL WATTERSON At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you'll have to find your inner m...
BILL WATTERSON Even when you do nothing, you are doing something. Be aware of your decisions and what they mean for...
ARMAND MEVIS You say: "I have lots of great ideas, but I have trouble figuring out which one to try. Let me tell ...
GUY KAWASAKI When you cover politics, you realize that knowing how to talk about character matters more and more....
DAVID BROOKS When you cover politics, you realize that knowing how to talk about character matters more and more....
DAVID BROOKS It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most sk...
CARL SAGAN When I went to high school in Australia, I was exposed to textbooks that outlined evolutionary ideas...
KEN HAM I like to say that I'm tracing the intersection between big ideas and human experience, between ...
KRISTA TIPPETT Some of the ideas that come from the fringe of the far right are just so implausible that it is hard...
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WILL WRIGHT My good ideas are shy. But if they see that I treat the stupid ideas with respect, they come forward...
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VERNOR VINGE The ideas I use are mostly the ideas of people who don't develop them
THOMAS ALVA EDISON I think that ideas exist outside of ourselves. I think somewhere, we're all connected off in som...
DAVID LYNCH Say it! No ideas but in things.
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS I love that. I love to lead worship and preach . . . I look forward to the chance to be in chapel ev...
AMY LARSON Ideas are not in textbooks and journals, Ideas are more deeper than the shallow written works of men...
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON Ideas come from Ideas that originate from an Idea
ALAN A. PAOLINI Some people would say my paintings show a future world and maybe they do, but I paint from reality. ...
H. R. GIGER I think a part of the reason that those early plays were short was that I just kept having these ide...
SAM SHEPARD If your desire is for people to be comfortable with your ideas,then you are a person without ideas.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) You can't just hoard your ideas inside the ivory tower. You have to get them out into the world.
GEORGE M. CHURCH You run out of new ideas? Then you run out of your progression!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Various kinds of ideas can be classified by their relationship to the authentication process. There...
THOMAS SOWELL You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you any...
LEE IACOCCA Just middle-aged. Ideas used to grab me too. It's not that you get better ideas, the old ones just g...
JOHN UPDIKE I have wonderful ideas. And terrible ideas. And terribly wonderful ideas.
TIFFANY REISZ Let's get one thing clear right now, shall we? There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of...
STEPHEN KING The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. It is better to have enough ideas...
EDWARD DE BONO We need more big ideas, stretch ideas, creative ideas than I sense we're thinking about today,
JOSEPH WHITE Our principal role as designers is to accelerate new ideas and the adoption of new ideas.
YVES BEHAR I am not a labor leader. I don't want you to follow me or anyone else. If you are looking for a Mose...
EUGENE DEBS I am not a labor leader. I don't want you to follow me or anyone else. If you are looking for a Mo...
EUGENE DEBS Ideas precede reform. If you can't think it, you can't say it and you can't do it.
NEWT GINGRICH Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.
SUE GRAFTON The new radical ideas will soon be the old radical ideas.
MARTY RUBIN If you cannot be open-minded, then you do not possess your ideas, your ideas possess you.
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HAMZA YUSUF Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.
SUE GRAFTON If all the ideas you dream up are being executed on then you don't have many ideas.
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SCARLETT THOMAS The more you teach positive ideas to others, the better you learn them yourself.
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DAVE BARRY The future is no place to place your better days.
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DAVE KELLETT I was trying to make the web more civil. I was trying to make it more elegant. I got rid of anonymit...
DAVE EGGERS Gang violence in America is not a sudden problem. It has been a part of urban life for years, offeri...
DAVE REICHERT It's all very boring to say that we get along great and all that and sometimes we mock up come a...
DAVE EDMUNDS To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.
DAVE BARRY American consumers have no problem with carcinogens, but they will not purchase any product, includi...
DAVE BARRY Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television witho...
DAVE BARRY In terms of personalities - I don't care about the personalities, I want leadership that's i...
DAVE BRAT I became a war hero before going on to critical acclaim as a professional victim.
DAVE PELZER Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects.
DAVE BARRY When you please others in hopes of being accepted, you lose you self-worth in the process.
DAVE PELZER Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who re...
DAVE BARRY I work 338 days a year, 16 hours a day.
DAVE PELZER At a family's most difficult time, I want to make sure at a minimum that they have the very basi...
DAVE REICHERT