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If you go through life convinced that your way is always best, all the new ideas in the world will pass you by.
Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not.
I have drawn from the well of language many a thought which I do not have and which I could not put into words.
This idea where, in this safe haven for Jews, Jews will threaten to kill other Jews, it wasn't in the brochure.
How many times do we all have to do this? Get up, go to school, again? Before everyone admits it's a crap idea?
The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.
When we put down ideas of what life should be like, we are free to wholeheartedly say yes to our life as it is.
The idea of a superior or inferior race is a myth that has been completely refuted by anthropological evidence.
The vast majority of people in any organization, even quite high up, have got no idea who the real masters are.
To be an American is not...a matter of blood; it is a matter of an idea--and history is the image of that idea.
The greatest ideas, the most profound thoughts, and the most beautiful poetry are born from the womb of silence
If there are differences of views or divergence of ideas, they can be resolved through discussion and dialogue.
You cannot explain to someone who comes with no idea of what you are talking about without being misunderstood.
There's this idea that somebody's job could be more important than somebody else's, and to me, that's not true.
When one is in office one has no idea how damnable things can feel to the ordinary rank and file of the public.
I knew nothing about farce until I read Puce a l'Oreille, and had no idea what a deadly serious business it is.
Working with (new collaborators) and letting people in to try new melodies and new lyrical ideas was very hard.
Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.
It was one of those happy days that God grants us sometimes on earth to give us an idea of the bliss of heaven.
President Herbert Hoover returned his salary to the government. His idea caught on, and now we're all doing it.
Have you any idea what it's like to live under the same roof as four women? Armageddon is the best word for it.
I love this idea of trying to create that intellectual eroticism. That was what I was working toward all along.
If you want to achieve anything in this world, you have to get used to the idea that not everyone will like you.
The ideas that we have about self are an aggregate within a state of mind, and they chain us to a state of mind.
Publishers seem to be in an alcoholic haze most of the time. Well, the publishers have no idea what a writer is.
I work every day. I was flying the other day. and I was like, where am I flying? I have no idea, I work so much.
You can say that your ideas are bad for America, and frankly un-American, but don't say the person is a traitor.
My whole soul rebels against the idea that Hinduism and Islam represent two antagonistic cultures and doctrines.
To accept some idea of truth without experiencing it is like a painting of a cake on paper which you cannot eat.
And then I understood that she had no idea what she'd done to my family. She thought love and hatred were equal.
I thought you said scrying was a bad idea.” “It's like vodka,” Calla said. “It really depends on who's doing it.
Even when I have someone playing the song I give them the idea. I'm learning. I'm getting better over the years.
I think the idea was to make a horror film that became a science-fiction film with a lot of melodramatic tropes.
The idea that teaching is somehow the delivery of the goods is such a misunderstanding of what actually goes on.
The Christian idea of a perfect heaven that is something other than a non-existence is a contradiction in terms.
When the ideas are coming, I don't stop until the ideas stop because that train doesn't come along all the time.
The great majority of men use their own short-sighted ideas as a yardstick for measuring the divine omnipotence.
People with low financial literacy standards are often unable to take their ideas and create assets out of them.
Enjoying your work is essential. If your work becomes an expression of your own ideas, you will surely enjoy it.
No one has the right to enter literature without fresh new ideas. We’ve got too many dexterous drudges as it is.
I like the idea of the adventurer's spirit. I think that is very much what a man searches for, in a certain way.
If I read a book that cost me $20 and I get one good idea, I've gotten one of the greatest bargains of all time.
Marketing is about spreading ideas, and spreading ideas is the single most important output of our civilization.
I really kind of pride myself on figuring stuff out pretty quickly but I couldn't, couldn't. I just had no idea.
General ideas are essences. They are our gods: they round and ennoble the most partial and sordid way of living.
A lot of people reject the idea of God as Father if theyve had a competitive relationship with their own father.
I don't like the idea of the black race being diluted out of existence. I like the idea of all of us being here.
I shared this idea that fashion starts with a movement, an allure: elusive, defined through perfect proportions.
The idea of starting a band because of Nirvana and thereby trying to sound like Nirvana is totally not the case.
Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning.