Quotes with ideas

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  • Cate Blanchett Some ideas, like what you're going to do with your life, take time to form.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Bjork Sometimes, when I have a lot of ideas and I want to do a lot of things, or when I'm traveling, I lose energy and I can't do as many things as I want. So I have to plan days when I'm not doing anything. I find that a bit boring, but it's necessary.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Carine Roitfeld Sometimes, when you go to airport and look at the people, you see the worst looks - but the worst looks can give you more ideas than the best looks.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Andrew William Mellon Strong men have sound ideas and the force to make these ideas effective.
    Andrew William Mellon
    American banker and businessman
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  • Vladimir Nabokov Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.
    Vladimir Nabokov
    American writer and poet (1899 - 1977)
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  • Cass Sunstein Television is, in many respects, a passive medium: people receive information without really exchanging ideas with others. By contrast, the Internet can be an active medium, allowing individuals to use e-mail, discussion groups, and even Web sites to engage with one another.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Jean Cocteau The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Carl Bernstein The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political ideas.
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • Ben Horowitz The bad thing about young people starting a company is that sometimes they do it for the wrong reasons or because they have the wrong skill set, but the good thing is that they don't have any of the old paradigms baked into them, so they have a lot of the bright new ideas that are harder to come by as you get older.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • John Maynard Keynes The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Carlos Ruiz Zafon The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory.
    Carlos Ruiz Zafon
    Spanish novelist (1964 - 2020)
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  • Bird Johnson The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.
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  • Carlton Cuse The creative process is not like a situation where you get struck by a single lightning bolt. You have ongoing discoveries, and there's ongoing creative revelations. Yes, it's really helpful to be marching toward a specific destination, but, along the way, you must allow yourself room for your ideas to blossom, take root, and grow.
    Carlton Cuse
    American screenwriter, producer, and director (1959 - )
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  • Nolan Bushnell The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.
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  • Norman Angell The day for progress by force has passed; it will be progress by ideas or not at all.
    The Great Illusion (1910)
    Norman Angell
    English lecturer, journalist, author, and Member (1872 - 1967)
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  • Richard Rorty The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial.
    Richard Rorty
    American philosopher (1931 - 2007)
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  • John Maynard Keynes The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • John Maynard Keynes The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Boris Johnson The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP, they have run out of better ideas.
    Whats wrong with 40 Liverpool Road?, Daily Telegraph, 18 September 2003, p. 24.
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • Cass Sunstein The economic analysis of law has had many good ideas. It's had one great idea -like, world-transforming idea, I think. And the idea is, when you're stuck, minimize the sum of the costs of decisions and the costs of errors.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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