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Ideas Quotes
"I always feel more comfortable in chaotic surroundings. I don't know why that is. I think order is dull. There is something about this kind of desire for order, particularly in Anglo Saxon cultures, that drive out this ability for the streets to become a really exotic, amorphous, chaotic, organic place where ideas can, basically, develop."
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"I like to have books around to give me ideas-to get the verbal part of my brain to start working."
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"I did quite a lot of the arranging, fitting different sections together, tempo changes, all sorts of things like that. I actually acted as a bridge between Robert and Ian. Not so much composing, rather presenting musical ideas at each rehearsal."
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"In a battle between - two ideas, the best one doesn't necessarily win. No, the idea that wins is the one with the most fearless heretic behind it."
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"Very often, if I know the orchestra doesn't know a piece or it's a new piece, I have main ideas about it. But then we start to play and I never talk about places where they played so beautiful and so clear in the beginning that there is nothing to say."
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"I don't see any reason to quit playing. I'll be doing this at least till I get to a hundred and something. You know, I ain't got far to go. But I'm still going to be playing, as long as I have good ideas, and can play as I do."
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"I enjoyed so much working with the guys from Wilco, and riffing off of them, and having someone come up to me with ideas, because normally in the studio it's me who has to come up with all the ideas."
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"I'm always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs."
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"The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd."
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"Ideas are seeds of existence in absolute emptiness.Creative words are the building blocks of such ideas."
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"I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future."
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"I'll come in with a string of riffs and direct the musical ideas. But you still need a band and their input to make the ideas come alive. You can't underestimate band chemistry."
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"Good designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organizing and manipulating of words and pictures."
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"Musical ideas sprang to my mind like a flight of butterflies, and all I had to do was to stretch out my hand to catch them."
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"Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts."
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"Ideas too sometimes fall from the tree before they are ripe."
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"There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it."
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"You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change."
5
"Send a solid idea to beyond this universe!A neighbour universe will soon be existed."
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"Ideas that don't even exist have the power to destroy the world."
4
"The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them."
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"Opinions of the masses kill the 'extra' in an 'extraordinary' idea."
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"I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas."
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"If unconventional ideas = sperm, then public opinion = abortion."
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"Sometimes I have a good idea, something I wish I could remember, and instead of writing it down, commit it to my memory only to disappear when I needed it. Write your ideas as they come, if you wait it will be too long and you may not recover it. It may get destroyed as it is to seed to and fro in the ever rushing river of our thoughts."
3
"There are tree main bulwarks of defence against new thoughts: to pay no heed, to give no credence, and finally to assert that it had already long existed."
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"A word to the unwise.Torch every book.Char every page.Burn every word to ash.Ideas are incombustible.And therein lies your real fear."
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"I thought you could beat, pummel, and thrash an idea into existence. Under such treatment, of course, any decent idea folds up its paws, turns on its back, fixes its eyes on eternity, and dies."
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"Don't disregard your so-called "stupid ideas." They may be inspired thoughts and high-potential opportunities. Whatcha gonna do?"
3
"Ideas are not in textbooks and journals, Ideas are more deeper than the shallow written works of men. You are the idea that comes like an idea."
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"The inventors of tools enhance civilization,but the author of ideas enables them to invent."
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"Every idea, both good and bad will definitely have an opposition. The fact that someone mocks your ideas and dreams does not mean they are bad. Take note!"
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"Share your ideas with people of like-mind and get motivated by their encouragements and experiences."
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"The exchange rate for ideas is infinite."
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"It is easy to destroy a book, but an idea once implanted has roots no man can utterly destroy."
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"A solid idea is a firm foundation of a universe construction."
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