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Ideas Quotes
"There is a firm, clear commitment to provide resources and ideas to enable us to organize the Afghans towards starting the process of rehabilitation and reconstruction."
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"A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas."
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"I constantly try to reinvent my sensibilities and my ideas. I enjoy some of the satisfaction that I get when I feel good about what I've done. But the process is quite lonely and quite painful."
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"I take little bits and pieces of ideas that I may or may not believe in but I give them to this character and he runs with them. I have fun with however he handles the situation."
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"We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion."
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"Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied."
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"I'm supposed to be the director of a television company, but I've only ever seen that company as a vehicle for making the kind of programmes we wanted to make, getting our ideas on the screen."
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"Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them."
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"The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm."
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"I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right."
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"A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas."
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"Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away."
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"They're stealing my ideas. They're imitating my shots."
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"Filmgoers are starved for new ideas, voices and visions."
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"Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today."
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"I normally keep a series of draft in a catalogue type of book in which I scribble, sketch and draw ideas."
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"When I follow the finals of the European Cups, I look at all the aspects surrounding protocol, to get some ideas. I am interested in personalities, sponsors and the stands. But as soon as the whistle goes, it's all on the pitch."
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"The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!"
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"Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them."
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"I have some ideas on how to fix that. They're not very good ideas, but at least they're ideas!"
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"It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas."
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"Too often new ideas are studied and analyzed until they are suffocated."
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"It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas."
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"That doesn't necessarily mean they have to have an explicit proposal that they put forward that all Democrats sign up to, but I think they need to throw some ideas out that, at least directionally, point the way forward."
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"The Tube is a vehicle for selling things, not for exploring ideas."
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"It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity."
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"The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors."
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"I had no new ideas on the physics we might learn, and I could not compete with the younger generation."
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"On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
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"A lot of the lyrical ideas do have a lot of meaning in a way, although it is somewhat abstracted."
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"Ideas rose in clouds; I felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination."
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"On occasion I have drawn as a release from painting. The economy in using paper, pencil, charcoal and crayon can help towards a greater gamble and higher rewards. I also find that drawing can generate ideas more rapidly than painting."
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