T Quotes
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“The idea is that what an artist lives through should broaden his notion of what it is possible for a human being to live through, and that new understanding should then get into and expand the work.”
“The idea is the art should play with already established premises and explore it with juxtaposed ideas. This is my definition of art.”
Source: All Our Fictional Dreams
“The idea is the least labor and capital and resources you put together and the more you accumulate the better capitalist you are. So the suggestion I will make to you is that the idea of constant accumulation, which is what America is about, what consumerism, NAFTA are about, means that you always take more than you need and you don't leave the rest. So I suggest that it is possible from an indigenous world view that capitalism is inherently out of order with natural law.”
“The idea is there locked inside. All you have to do is remove the excess stone.”
“The idea is to always be attempting things that are greater than who I am. Otherwise I will never be more than who I am. That is why I prefer the call of God over the plans of men, for the former is a call to the impossible and the latter is a summons to what I did yesterday.”
“The idea is to be healthy, not to wear yourself down or to try and be a twig or change yourself drastically.”
“The idea is to be inconsistent, but consistently so.”
Source: Necessitating Change: A Practical Guide to Self-Actualization
“The idea is to become a best-selling author first and then the rest of my books will be slam dunks.”
“The idea is to become an old wizard; to live a long and fruitful life and have family and be healthy and enjoy the ride. And speaking of the ride, why not let it rip, at least a little bit? Everyone I know who's really stoked about getting out of bed in the morning does that to some extent.”
Source: Force of Nature: Mind, Body, Soul (And, of Course, Surfing)
“The idea is to believe me... but as far as I see the world... to believe is a sin... to trust me one very big mistake. If you do that I am fucking threat to the whole world... so?”
“The idea is to buy when the probability is greatest that the market is going to advance.”
“The idea is to change the nature and value system of the nation as whole”
“The idea is to die young as late as possible.”
“The idea is to do out-of-the-box films that showcase my versatility and talent.”
“The idea is to don't stop... if you have started... don't stop... 24/7 Read books = You just made a official circle... (1 day life)”
Source: Reddit Collection
“The idea is to encourage men to go with their wives and screen. So, if the wife is going to go and do her screening, then the man can go and do his baseline screening, too. Men need to be aware of the health of their bodies, as well - prostate cancer and breast cancer are almost on the same level.”
“The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.”
Source: Conversations with Bernard Malamud
“The idea is to have global standards. There is so much travel that if you just had a regional standard, it would probably ultimately have to be changed.”
“The idea is to have no idea. Get lost. Get lost in the landscape.”
“The idea is to identify a destructive thought pattern, then simply label it and watch it and let it pass by whenever it appears in your mind.”
“The idea is to keep reinventing yourself. Once you attain a certain status as an actor, your fans start expecting from you and you should be able to fulfill them. That's why I try to choose as many different kind of roles as I can so that my fans are not disappointed with me. It would also get boring for me as an actor to keep repeating myself.”
“The idea is to make sure that these sex offenders are occupied with constructive matters and not focused on the children who may be knocking at their doors this Halloween”
“The idea is to make the ingredients sing, not a grand opera, but a jolly chanson.”
“The idea is to remain in a state of constant departure, while always arriving.”
“The idea is to spin the wheel of metaphors and images until sparks of associations begin to fly for the reader.”
“The idea is to take it a step forward and innovate. Or else why am I doing it? I don't want to be just another can in the assembly line. I want to create - do something that is totally different and unusual.”
“The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.”
Source: The Quotable Feynman
“The idea is to use minor events that are believed to be related to a terrorist organization, so graffiti is one of them, banners and leaflets are others, but also a lot of minor crimes if you can connect them with the group - credit card fraud, thefts - these types of things have been used to support them.”
“The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.”
“The idea is, we are representative of a probable future that contains and expresses certain frequencies and certain vibrations, that are representative of a harmonious earth, interacting with different beings, and its uyr choice to decide, and guide yourself, shift yourself to that version of earth or that timeline by being more of uyr self.”
Source: Pataphysics: Mastering Time Line Jumps for Personal Transformation
“The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?”
“The idea is, Mr. [Donald] Trump won the primaries in no small way because he had this very forceful position, saying all 11 or 12 million undocumented immigrants will be forced to leave the country.”
“The idea is: You played to 100 people this week in Europe, and then next week you can play to 200. It's an investment in that territory. But it can lose money because it's very expensive to go to Europe. You can't really just say, like, "Oh, we're gonna take our van and drive to California tomorrow." It's more like, "Oh, we have to fly to London and rent three guitar amps, a bass amp, drums; buy all these flights for four people; hire a driver."”
“The idea isn't to find yourself another environment for tomorrow, but to be constantly creating the environment and community you want for yourself, no matter what may occur.”
“The idea itself, the notion of what the next Tron could be, is exciting enough that it would be worth going back to do it. Obviously we hinted some things at the end of Legacy, it's kind of there for people to see what that potential is. So we just want to make sure that we have a script that delivers on that promise on an epic scale."”
“The idea kind of started with me just thinking about what would be fun to see in animation, you know - what have I not seen? For some reason, I got thinking about the human body and realizing, well, I've seen, like, traveling through the bloodstream and into the, you know, stomach and things.”
“The idea led me into the research, which continues to give me more ideas for the story.”
“The idea made Mahlia’s chest tighten. It was her own fantasy, the secret one she sometimes curled up to when she went to bed, knowing that it was stupid, but still wanting it, wanting it to somehow all make sense.”
Source: The Drowned Cities
“The idea made me shiver, rather; for it was queer to think of being loved, not just for my own sake, but for someone's I never knew...”
Source: Fingersmith
“The idea makes a lot of people uncomfortable. [...] It's hurt a great many people and been responsible for a great deal of misery. But, to my mind at least, that doesn't mean it can't now bring pleasure to someone.”
Source: Quis Custodiet
“The idea now that we're going to fight terrorism through gun control I think is just utterly fatuous.”
“The idea occurred to him when he was twenty. At first it was only a vague idea, a question looming — what should I do? — with an answer taking shape: nothing.”
Source: Life, a user's manual: fictions
“The idea of "human rights," for example - sometimes it bothers me. Not in itself, but because the concept of human rights has replaced the much grander idea of justice.”
“The idea of "karma" reeks of primitive religious superstition, so I don't place a lot of stock in it.”
“The idea of "making art for art's sake" makes no sense for me. Each area of my life, all the roles I play, influences the others.”
“The idea of "race" represents one of the most dangerous myths of our time.”
Source: Man's Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race
“The idea of 'ferie,' or summer break, is a long tradition of which all Italians, including myself, participate. It's a time to relax, reflect and recharge.”
“The idea of 'machine assemblage' is, especially, very alien to my sensibility, since it suggests a relative indifference of the strata to one another during the process of construction.”
“The idea of 'talking white,' a lot of people grew up around that, just the idea that if you speak with proper diction and come off as educated that it's not black and that it's actually anti-black and should be considered only something that white people would do.”
“The idea of 'Voice of Witness' is to let survivors and witnesses of human-rights abuses tell their story at length. It started with a course that I co-taught at U.C. Berkeley journalism school back in 2003.”