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Ideas Quotes
"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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"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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"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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"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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"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 not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied."
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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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"They're stealing my ideas. They're imitating my shots."
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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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"But obviously, we're looking for all good ideas to help deal with our long-term debt problem. This is something that is going to affect our economy. It affects our kids. And we need to deal with it."
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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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"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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"The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity."
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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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"The Tube is a vehicle for selling things, not for exploring ideas."
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"It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas."
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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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"Abroad, they have covered pretty much all subjects, explored every possibility, every twist. So similarities between ideas you have and those filmed abroad are quite possible."
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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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"Filmgoers are starved for new ideas, voices and visions."
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"Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them."
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"Aaron is a very passionate, maniacal writer so the scripts really come from him, but he is very open to... y'know, we'll plan ideas and we'll certainly tussle about stuff when the script comes out. So, to a certain extent, he's very interested. If there's some problem or something that doesn't ring true, he wants to know why and he wants to correct it or fight for it."
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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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"The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm."
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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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"Too often new ideas are studied and analyzed until they are suffocated."
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"I would rather read a poorly structured story that has fresh ideas than a tightly structured one with cliches."
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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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"Jack and I usually get together and sit around in the afternoons and start throwing ideas around."
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"Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced."
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"Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today."
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"I like to come up with the melodies, and I have a lot of ideas as far as structure goes."
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