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Image of Evan Williams
News in general doesn't matter most of the time, and most people would be far better off if they spent their time consuming less news and more ideas that have more lasting import.
- Evan Williams
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Image of Glenn Greenwald
Nobody has the right to shield any idea as so sacred it can’t be challenged. ... Almost all human progress is driven by people who stood up and said ‘I disagree’ with this idea that society at the time considered to be the most precious.’
- Glenn Greenwald
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Image of Theodore Zeldin
All invention and progress comes from finding a link between two ideas that have never met.
- Theodore Zeldin
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Image of Neil Postman
Americans no longer talk to each other, they entertain each other. They do not exchange ideas, they exchange images. They do not argue with propositions; they argue with good looks, celebrities and comercials.
- Neil Postman
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Image of Richard Pryor
I see people as the nucleus of a great idea that hasn't come to be yet.
- Richard Pryor
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Image of Yukio Mishima
Young people get the foolish idea that what is new for them must be new for everybody else too. No matter how unconventional they get, they're just repeating what others before them have done.
- Yukio Mishima
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Image of Eliezer Yudkowsky
Between hindsight bias, fake causality, positive bias, anchoring/priming, et cetera et cetera, and above all the dreaded confirmation bias, once an idea gets into your head, it's probably going to stay there.
- Eliezer Yudkowsky
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Image of Pharrell Williams
The best work comes from people who are motivated by crisis. When something stops their original idea, they respond by coming up with something even better.
- Pharrell Williams
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Image of Alfie Kohn
In a word, learning is decontextualized. We break ideas down into tiny pieces that bear no relation to the whole. We give students a brick of information, followed by another brick, followed by another brick, until they are graduated, at which point we assume they have a house. What they have is a pile of bricks, and they don't have it for long.
- Alfie Kohn
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Image of Gloria Vanderbilt
I've resolved so many things in my life. I like the idea of showing that you can go through a lot and still be on your feet, still be working, and still be positive about life.
- Gloria Vanderbilt
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Image of Shashi Tharoor
The only possible idea of India is that of a nation greater than the sum of its parts.
- Shashi Tharoor
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Image of Nicholas Negroponte
My advice to graduates is to do anything except what you are trained for. Take that training to a place where it is out of place and stimulate ideas, shake up establishments, and don't take no for an answer.
- Nicholas Negroponte
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Image of Nicholas Negroponte
The ability to make big leaps of thought is a common denominator among the originators of breakthrough ideas.
- Nicholas Negroponte
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Image of Art Spiegelman
What we're losing culturally the fastest, aside from natural resources and oil and the idea of democracy and social justice, is the ability to concentrate.
- Art Spiegelman
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Image of James D. Watson
Knowing "why" (an idea) is more important than learning "what" (the fact).
- James D. Watson
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Image of Lawrence Block
Ideas come to people who are receptive to them.
- Lawrence Block
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Image of Walter Benjamin
The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe
- Walter Benjamin
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Image of Ridley Scott
It doesn't matter how much faith you have or don't have [in aliens]. I just don't buy the idea that we're alone. There's got to be some form of life out there.
- Ridley Scott
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Image of Meg Wolitzer
For me, a novel relying too heavily on a single idea might be a dry, deadly thing unless it possesses an animating force.
- Meg Wolitzer
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Image of Royce Gracie
The idea of jiu-jitsu is to give the little guy a chance to beat the big guy.
- Royce Gracie
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Image of Alison Weir
In one sphere above all others, Anne Boleyn still had the power to influence him, and that was in the case of church reform. Anne was a passionate and sincere evangelical, the owner of a library of controversial reformist literature, and she was sympathetic to radical and even Lutheran ideas.
- Alison Weir
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Image of Esther Hicks
I worry that I'll go down to the dock, and that my ship will have already come and gone. I'll miss my boat." And we say, another boat, another boat, another boat. You have no idea how many boats are coming to your dock. It's a steady stream, and it doesn't matter how many of them you've missed.
- Esther Hicks
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Image of Michael Behe
I find the idea of common descent (that all organisms share a common ancestor) fairly convincing, and have no particular reason to doubt it.
- Michael Behe
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Image of Anita Roddick
Three components make an entrepreneur: the person, the idea and the resources to make it happen.
- Anita Roddick
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Image of Errol Morris
I like to point out that people very often confuse the idea that truth is subjective with the fact that truth is perishable.
- Errol Morris
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Image of Seth Rogen
You want to create an environment where we're fostering ideas, not rejecting them.
- Seth Rogen
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Image of Philip Sington
I was already at an age when putting off anything was a bad idea.
- Philip Sington
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Image of Thomas Sankara
While revolutionaries as individuals can be murdered, you cannot kill ideas.
- Thomas Sankara
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Image of Kurt Gödel
I like Islam, it is a consistent idea of religion and open-minded.
- Kurt Gödel
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Image of Isaiah Berlin
The trouble with academics and commentators is that they care more about whether ideas are interesting than whether they are true.
- Isaiah Berlin
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Image of Carlos Ruiz Zafon
It seems that in the advanced stages of stupidity, a lack of ideas is compensated for by an excess of ideologies.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Image of Gerhard Richter
It is a danger to wait around for an idea to occur to you. You have to find the idea.
- Gerhard Richter
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Image of Gregory Peck
Entertainment is all right, but entertainment with an idea behind it is much more important.
- Gregory Peck
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Image of Peter Cameron
I found the idea of being a librarian very appealing--working in a place where people had to whisper and only speak when necessary. If only the world were like that!
- Peter Cameron
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Image of Bernard Beckett
The only thing binding individuals together is ideas. Ideas mutate and spread; they change their hosts as much as their hosts change them.
- Bernard Beckett
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Image of Bernard Beckett
Which came first, the mind or the idea of the mind? Have you never wondered? They arrived together. The mind is an idea.
- Bernard Beckett
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Image of Bernard Beckett
I respond well to what I read of Immanuel Kants idea that the world as we see it is absolutely a function of the way our brain works. In the modern parlance, its an evolved machine that we carry with us.
- Bernard Beckett
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Image of Laurence Olivier
Above all, you must remain open and fresh and alive to any new idea.
- Laurence Olivier
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Image of Evelyn Waugh
You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being.
- Evelyn Waugh
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Image of Dorothy Koomson
I'd spent so long trying to fit in,trying to be someone i wasn't,that i had no idea who i was any more.
- Dorothy Koomson
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Image of Laura Ziskin
What's great about making movies is the sort of additive process of bringing people together and having an idea and watching the idea be added to and at the end you have this thing. It's really a collaborative experience.
- Laura Ziskin
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Image of Henri Poincare
Often when works at a hard question, nothing good is accomplished at the first attack. Then one takes a rest, long or short, and sits down anew to the work. During the first half-hour, as before, nothing is found, and then all of a sudden the decisive idea presents itself to the mind.
- Henri Poincare
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Image of C. Terry Warner
There is a vast difference between living according to one's idea of what it is to be good, and actually being that way.
- C. Terry Warner
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Image of James Gleick
Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.
- James Gleick
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Image of Adrian Rogers
When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work, because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is the beginning of the end of any nation
- Adrian Rogers
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Image of John Boehner
The idea that carbon dioxide is a carcinogen that is harmful to our environment is almost comical. Every time we exhale, we exhale carbon dioxide. Every cow in the world, you know, when they do what they do, you've got more carbon dioxide.
- John Boehner
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Image of C. Wright Mills
What we experience in various and specific milieux, I have noted, is often caused by structural changes. Accordingly, to understand the changes of many personal milieux we are required to look beyond them. And the number and variety of such structural changes increase as the institutions within which we live become more embracing and more intricately connected with one another. To be aware of the idea of social structure and to use it with sensibility is to be capable of tracing such linkages among a great variety of milieux. To be able to do that is to possess the sociological imagination
- C. Wright Mills
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Image of Charlie Pierce
Campaigns are no longer high-minded exchanges of ideas, even though God knows we need more good ones - ideas, that is.
- Charlie Pierce
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Image of Robert Bresson
Hide the ideas, but so that people find them. The most important will be the most hidden.
- Robert Bresson
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