Quotes and Sayings About Ideas
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I think that my ideas of the world are that it's random and cruel but kind of quite comical really, and therefore the humour, in a sense, springs from that.
-- Alexei Sayle -
I was still too weak to understand his chess ideas at that time but I remember being covered in smoke.
-- Alexei Shirov -
When the novice photographer starts taking pictures, he carries his camera about and shoots everything that interests him. There comes a time when he must crystallize his ideas and set off in an particular direction. He must learn that shooting for the sake of shooting is dull and unprofitable.
-- Alexey Brodovitch -
I often think of a quote from entrepreneur Jim Rohn: 'You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.' Surround yourself with people who are doing interesting things, who are thinking interesting thoughts, who challenge you to be better, and who come from a diverse set of backgrounds and experiences. That, combined with appropriate moments of 'me' time, provides the perfect breeding ground for great ideas. And whatever you do, don't get hung up on what competitors are doing. Be aware of what's going on in the industry, but don't let it dictate your own creative process.
-- Alexis Ohanian -
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The great thing about the Internet is, it's the freest marketplace of ideas that there is.
-- Alexis OhanianSource : Source: www.avclub.com
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Entrepreneur is just French for 'has ideas, does them'.
-- Alexis Ohanian -
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 KohnSource : Alfie Kohn (1999). “Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes”, p.232, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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I am grateful for the idea that has used me.
-- Alfred Adler -
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The finest piece of mechanism in all the universe is the brain of man. The wise person develops his brain, and opens his mind to the genius and spirit of the world's great ideas. He will feel inspired with the purest and noblest thoughts that have ever animated the spirit of humanity.
-- Alfred Armand Montapert -
Could we look into the head of a Chess player, we should see there a whole world of feelings, images, ideas, emotion and passion
-- Alfred Binet -
Alas, everything that men say to one another is alike; the ideas they exchange are almost always the same, in their conversation. But inside all those isolated machines, what hidden recesses, what secret compartments! It is an entire world that each one carries within him, an unknown world that is born and dies in silence! What solitudes all these human bodies are!
-- Alfred de MussetSource : Alfred de Musset, David Sices (1994). “Comedies & proverbs”, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Few persons enjoy real liberty; we are all slaves to ideas or habits.
-- Alfred de Musset -
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I can't help it, the idea of the infinite torments me.
-- Alfred de Musset -
The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.
-- Alfred de Vigny -
What is a great life if not a youthful idea executed by a man of mature years.
-- Alfred de Vigny -
If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.
-- Alfred Hitchcock -
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To keep up even a worthwhile tradition means vitiating the idea behind it which must necessarily be in a constant state of evolution: it is mad to try to express new feelings in a mummified form.
-- Alfred JarrySource : Katharine Noel, Alfred Jarry (2007). “Selected works of Alfred Jarry”, Grove Pr
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The indictment knocked me on the head. First of all, I hand no idea at all about 90 per cent of the accusations in it. The crimes are horrible beyond belief, if they are true. Secondly, I don't see how they can fail to recognize a soldier's obligation to obey orders. That's the code I've live by all my life.
-- Alfred Jodl -
The writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings gratification, is a curious anticlimax.
-- Alfred KazinSource : 1963 In Think, Feb.
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Modern American literature was born in protest, born in rebellion, born out of the sense of loss and indirection which was imposed upon the new generations out of the realization that the old formal culture-the "New England idea"-could no longer serve.
-- Alfred KazinSource : Alfred Kazin (2013). “On Native Grounds: An Interpretation Of Modern American Prose Literature”, p.59, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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I liked reading and working out my ideas in the midst of that endless crowd walking in and out of the (library) looking for something. I, too, was seeking fame and fortune by sitting at the end of a long golden table next to the sets of American authors on the open shelves.
-- Alfred Kazin -
I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.
-- Alfred Nobel -
If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
-- Alfred Nobel -
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Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
Above all things we must be aware of what I will call 'inert ideas' - that is to say, ideas that are merely received into the mind without being utilized, or tested, or thrown into fresh combinations.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
The importance of an individual thinker owes something to chance. For it depends upon the fate of his ideas in the minds of his successors.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
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Education with inert ideas is not only useless; it is above all things harmful.
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With the sense of sight, the idea communicates the emotion, whereas, with sound, the emotion communicates the idea, which is more direct and therefore more powerful.
-- Alfred North Whitehead