Top ideas Quotes Collection

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Image of Hans Rosling
The idea is to go from numbers to information to understanding.
- Hans Rosling
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Image of V. S. Naipaul
After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
- V. S. Naipaul
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Image of Felix Dennis
The belief that you have a great idea is not worth cuckoo spit. Ideas are ten a penny while the ability to execute counts for a great deal more.
- Felix Dennis
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Image of Felix Dennis
Ideas don't make you rich. The correct execution of ideas does.
- Felix Dennis
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Image of Philip Gourevitch
What distinguishes genocide from murder, and even from acts of political murder that claim as many victims, is the intent. The crime is wanting to make a people extinct. The idea is the crime.
- Philip Gourevitch
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Image of Glenn Beck
It is only on the battlefield of ideas that the best ones can be recognized and ultimately prevail. Only those afraid of the truth seek to silence debate, intimidate those with whom they disagree, or slander their ideological counterparts. Those who know they are right have no reason to stifle debate because they realize that all opposing arguments will ultimately be overcome by fact.
- Glenn Beck
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Image of Twyla Tharp
Without the little ideas, there are no big ideas.
- Twyla Tharp
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Image of Jacques Pepin
The idea of old was to conform yourself to a style of cooking, it was not to create a style of cooking. Now the chef is so much into 'I want to sign that dish and say I am the one who made that dish.
- Jacques Pepin
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Image of Adelaide Anne Procter
Have we not all, amid life's petty strife, / Some pure idea of a noble life / That once seemed possible?
- Adelaide Anne Procter
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Image of Larry Winget
If it's a good idea, do it today. Not tomorrow. A good idea rarely gets better over time.
- Larry Winget
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Image of Boris Spassky
The computer age has arrived, and it influences everything: analysis, preparation, information. Now a different talent is required - the ability to synthesize ideas.
- Boris Spassky
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Image of Lilith Saintcrow
Some days, a killing spree seems like a good idea.
- Lilith Saintcrow
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Image of Dallas Willard
When [Satan] undertook to draw Eve away from God, he did not hit her with a stick, but with an idea. It was with an idea that God could not be trusted and that she must act on her own to secure her own well-being.
- Dallas Willard
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Image of Giambattista Vico
The criterion and rule of the true is to have made it. Accordingly, our clear and distinct idea of the mind cannot be a criterion of the mind itself, still less of other truths. For while the mind perceives itself, it does not make itself.
- Giambattista Vico
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Image of Fred Wilson
If you have an idea that you can't get out of your head, do a startup. Otherwise join a startup.
- Fred Wilson
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Image of Fred Wilson
Ideas that most people derided as ridiculous have produced the best outcomes. Don't do the obvious thing.
- Fred Wilson
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Image of Bobby Sands
You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea.
- Bobby Sands
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Image of Natalie Portman
The moment you buy into the idea that you're above anyone else, is the moment you need to be slapped in the face.
- Natalie Portman
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Image of George Lois
Only mediocre ideas can be tested.
- George Lois
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Image of Joan Miro
The simplest things give me ideas.
- Joan Miro
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Image of Walter Mosley
The biggest misconception that people have about the literary life is the romance of it. That a writer has this large world available to him or her of people, of ideas, of experiences, of interchange of ideas...
- Walter Mosley
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Image of Michelangelo
The idea is there locked inside. All you have to do is remove the excess stone.
- Michelangelo
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Image of Benjamin Tucker
The moment one abandons the idea that he was born to discover what is right and enforce it upon the rest of the world, he begins to feel an increasing disposition to let others alone and to refrain even from retaliation or resistance except in those emergencies which immediately and imperatively require it.
- Benjamin Tucker
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Image of Lyn Hejinian
This poem is one of a series, all of them elegiac in intention, and subject to the strange forces of mourning that let loose illogical developments, into impossible configurations of thought. The poem is built of non-sequiturs, because that's what's left in the wake of the death. We cannot follow the dead, whether they are persons or ideas. Instead we remain, but in a situation that, in their absence, makes no sense.
- Lyn Hejinian
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Image of Bruce Nauman
My videos always involve some idea of a human being in a unusual situation-and what happens.
- Bruce Nauman
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Image of Bill Moyers
Conservatism is less a set of ideas than it is a pathological distemper, a militant anger over the fact that the universe is not closed and life is not static.
- Bill Moyers
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Image of Katherine Anne Porter
Perhaps the habit which distinguishes civilized people from others is that of discussion, exchange of opinion and ideas, the ability to differ without quarrelling, to say what you have to say civilly and then to listen civilly to another speaker.
- Katherine Anne Porter
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Image of Robert J. Sawyer
Paul Levinson has outdone himself: The Plot to Save Socrates is a philosophically rich gem full of big ideas and wonderful time-travel tricks.
- Robert J. Sawyer
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Image of David Boreanaz
Of course, your voice always sounds better in the shower for some reason, maybe it's just the octaves or, I don't know, the water, I have no idea.
- David Boreanaz
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Image of Steven Soderbergh
If you're going to make a movie for ten thousand you can talk everybody into doing it for free. You could make a really good-looking movie right for ten grand, if you have an idea.
- Steven Soderbergh
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Image of Steven Soderbergh
There are people who are originals and the stuff they make really is new. It isn't based on anything else. But I've decided I'm not that-I was never that. My abilities are to synthesize a wide range of references and ideas into something that feels relatively unified and coherent.
- Steven Soderbergh
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Image of Dennis Miller
Other than the bombs they strap to their chests, Ive got no idea what makes the Palestinians tick.
- Dennis Miller
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Image of Clara Schumann
I once believed that I possessed creative talent, but I have given up this idea; a woman must not desire to compose — there has never yet been one able to do it. Should I expect to be the one?
- Clara Schumann
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Image of Luc Besson
We talked a lot with the musician. And for now there are few options, and I give him few weeks to come and surprise me with something. I don't want to start and say, okay here is what I want. Because maybe he has an idea that is better than mine.
- Luc Besson
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Image of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
The newspapers are the cemeteries of ideas.
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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Image of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
The idea of God is the type and foundation of the principle of authority and absolutism, which it is our task to destroy or at least to subordinate wherever it manifests itself.
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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Image of William Pollard
Too often new ideas are studied and analyzed until they are suffocated.
- William Pollard
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Image of Alan Moore
Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.
- Alan Moore
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Image of Andy McDermott
This is not my fault! Any ideas?” “You don't have a white flag, do you?
- Andy McDermott
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Image of Samantha Shannon
I'm often daydreaming and it's because I've always liked the idea of there being something more than the normal world.
- Samantha Shannon
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Image of Catherine Fisher
None of us have much idea where we are. Perhaps all our lives are too concerned with where, and not enough with who.
- Catherine Fisher
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Image of Brenda Ueland
When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.
- Brenda Ueland
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Image of Sonia Sanchez
What is the beauty of the haiku is that it is not simplistic. The beauty of the haiku I just said is very complex. It reaches all the complexities of our life on this Earth. Peace - that's a very complex idea, peace, so we can't get it as human beings.
- Sonia Sanchez
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Image of China Mieville
Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd.
- China Mieville
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Image of Michael Bloomberg
Entrepreneurship is having an idea to do something great and not entirely have a plan on how to do it but the drive and will power to make it work
- Michael Bloomberg
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Image of Amber Tamblyn
For most women, whether you're an actress or whatever you do, there is this pressure in society and within the world to look a certain way, dress a certain way, act a certain way, say certain things, and be this idea as opposed to being a person.
- Amber Tamblyn
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Image of Ted Chiang
Brain damage is never a good idea, no matter what your friends say.
- Ted Chiang
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Image of Edward Tufte
Graphical excellence is that which gives to the viewer the greatest number of ideas in the shortest time with the least ink in the smallest space.
- Edward Tufte
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Image of Roger von Oech
New ideas are not born in a conforming environment.
- Roger von Oech
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Image of Charles Sanders Peirce
The idea does not belong to the soul; it is the soul that belongs to the idea.
- Charles Sanders Peirce
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