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“Grief is Newark. It's there. Can't avoid it. The idea is to hold your nose, hope the traffic's not too bad and get on to Manhattan as quickly as possible.”

Ideas Grief Noses Traffic Manhattan Newark

Author:Eli Attie

“Show business is like a bumpy bus ride. Sometimes you find yourself temporarily juggled out of your seat and holding onto a strap. But the main idea is to hang in there and not be shoved out the door.”

Ideas Sometimes Shows Doors Seats Finding Yourself Bus Show Business Holding On Hang In There

Author:Cliff Robertson

“In general, I don't like game mechanics, I mean it's the idea you do the same things through different levels. I think, in my mind, it's an ideas I don't really like because I love to do different things and like to see the story moving on and I like to do different things and different scenes, not do the same thing over and over again. If it involves violence at some point fine, if it makes sense in the context. But violence for the sake of violence, it doesn't mean anything to me anymore.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Mean Ideas Different Stories Moving Games Levels Violence Fine Scene Sake Make Sense Different Things Mechanic Different Levels

Author:David Cage

“My novels tend to come about from a fusion of two big ideas, creating a critical mass that then fissions, throwing off hundreds of other particles, riffs, tropes and characters.”

Two Ideas Character Bigs Novel Creating Mass Critical Throwing Particles Fusion Big Ideas Tropes Critical Mass Fission

Author:Will Self

“Generally speaking, only simple conceptions can grip the mind of a nation. An idea that is clear and precise even though false will always have greater power in the world than an idea that is true but complex.”

World Mind Ideas Nations Simple Clear Greater Complexes Conception Precise Greater Power

Book:Democracy in America

Source: Democracy in America

“The idea of a tax on the ownership of a television belongs in the 1950s. Why not tax people for owning a washing machine to fund the manufacture of Persil?”

People Ideas Television Taxes Machines Fund Why Not Ownership Washing Washing Machines

Author:Jeremy Paxman

“Philosophy wasn't about facts, it was about ideas. My first essay title was something like: 'How can you know what other people are thinking?' I thought, 'Wow, what an amazing thing.' I really thought deeply for the first time.”

People Thinking Knows Firsts Ideas Philosophy Facts First Time Titles Wow Essays Amazing Things

Author:Sophie Kinsella

“Repeatedly and frankly we have announced that in Irans national security doctrine there is no room for atomic and chemical weapons as we consider them against Islamic laws. Irans Supreme Leader (Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei) in this connection had issued a decree that mass destruction weapons are prohibited by the Muslim religion. [. . .] Therefore we support the idea of a Middle East free from weapons of mass destruction[.]”

“In one word, Queequeg, said I, rather digressively; hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple-dumpling; and since then perpetuated through the hereditary dyspepsias nurtured by Ramadans.”

Firsts Said Ideas Born Hell Apples One Word Hereditary Ramadan Dumplings

Book:Moby Dick

Source: Moby Dick

“If a dictator takes up my ideas, the resulting town will survive the political system that commissioned it and stand as a social good. Besides, modernism rather than classicism has dominated the architecture of totalitarian regimes of both the left and right.”

Ifs Ideas Political Left Social Towns Architecture Regimes Dictator Modernism Political Systems Left And Right Social Good Totalitarian Regimes Classicism

Author:Leon Krier

“The problem was Le Corbusier was a genius and an enormous artist, but he tried to resolve problems to which there is no solution. So the idea to demolish the centre of Paris in order to adapt it to the car - he drew it! - is something not even the most bloody dictators conceived.”

Ideas Problem Artist Order Car Genius Solutions Enormous Paris Resolve Dictator Bloody Centre Demolish

Author:Leon Krier

“I don't design houses with the nuclear family idea because I don't believe in it as a concept.”

Believe Ideas House Design Concepts Don't Believe Nuclear Nuclear Families

Author:Peter Eisenman

“Read for fun, read for information, read in order to understand yourself and other people with quite different ideas. Learn about the world beyond your door. Learn to be compassionate and grow in wisdom. Books can help us in all these ways.”

People World Way Book Ideas Different Helping Order Fun Grows Doors Information Compassionate Different Ideas

Author:Katherine Paterson

“The idea of voluntary segregation went against every value I had been taught. What did being born black have to do with excellence?”

Ideas Values Black Born Taught Excellence Segregation

Author:Walter Dean Myers

“Feminism … I think the simplest explanation, and one that captures the idea, is a song that Marlo Thomas sang, 'Free to be You and Me.' Free to be, if you were a girl—doctor, lawyer, Indian chief. Anything you want to be. And if you’re a boy, and you like teaching, you like nursing, you would like to have a doll, that’s OK too. That notion that we should each be free to develop our own talents, whatever they may be, and not be held back by artificial barriers—manmade barriers, certainly not heaven sent.”

“The world makes way for the man with an idea.”

Men World Way Ideas Goal He Man Life Goal Determination And Success Will And Determination Determination Motivational Goals And Life Inspirational Goal Inspirational Goal Setting Motivational Goal Goals And Motivation Life Determination Drive And Determination

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Source: ORISON SWETT MARDEN Premium Collection - Wisdom & Empowerment Series (18 Books in One Volume): Steps to Success and Power, How to Get What You Want, An Iron Will, Be Good to Yourself, Every Man A King, Keeping Fit, Prosperity – How to Attract It, Stepping-Stones To Fame And Fortune...

“Ideas are information taking shape.”

Ideas Information Shapes Deep Thought

Author:Jim Rohn

“I am always shocked that there are still a handful of defenders of the dubious practice of abstinence, surely the worst idea since chocolate-covered ants.”

Stills Ideas Practice Worst Chocolate Covered Shocked Handful Ants Defenders Abstinence Dubious

Author:Dick Cavett

“Home schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry.”

Ideas Home Schooling Dentistry

Author:Dick Cavett

“It seems to me quite disastrous that the idea should have got about that Christianity is an other-worldly, unreal, idealistic kind of religion that suggests that if we are good we shall be happy. On the contrary, it is fiercely and even harshly realistic, insisting that there are certain eternal achievements that make even happiness look like trash.”

Ifs Should Looks Kind Ideas Seems Certain Christianity Achievement Eternal Should Have Contrary Realistic Worldly Trash Unreal Insisting Idealistic

Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“It's an odd thing but when you tell someone the true facts of a mythical tale they are indignant not with the teller but with you. They don't want to have their ideas upset. It rouses some vague uneasiness in them, I think, and they resent it. So they reject it and refuse to think about it. If they were merely indifferent it would be natural and understandable. But it is much stronger than that, much more positive. They are annoyed. Very odd, isn't it.”

Ifs Thinking Want Ideas Facts Would Be Natural Stronger Refuse Tales Odd Upset Rejects Indifferent Vague Annoyed Resent Uneasiness Odd Things Indignant True Fact

Author:Josephine Tey

“I would say that I am a poor Christian; I'm not a believer. It was this idea very early in my life that life on Earth, nature or man could not be a creation of a merciful God.”

Men Ideas Earth Christian Poor Creation Believer Merciful Merciful God

Author:Lars von Trier

“We must have life building, man-making, character-making assimilation of ideas.”

Men Ideas Character Building Assimilation

Book:Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation

Source: Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation

“You described the feeling you’d always had of being misplaced, of always standing to one side of yourself, of watching yourself in the world even as you were being in the world, and wondering if this was how everyone felt. That you always believed that other people had a clearer idea of what they were doing, and didn’t worry quite so much about why.”

People Ifs World Ideas Feelings Felt Sides Wonder Worry Standing Always Believe Misplaced

Author:Jay McInerney

“To me it is no mystery that we can only photograph effectively what we are truly interested in or-maybe more importantly-are grappling with. Often unconsciously. Otherwise the photographs are merely about an idea or a concept-that stuff eventually falls flat for me-there must be something more, some emotional hook for it to really work for me.”

Ideas Fall Stuff Interest Consciousness Mystery Emotional Photography Conscious Concepts Photograph Flats Hook Effectiveness Grappling Flatness

Author:Todd Hido

“Brian Eno developed systems to keep himself on edge and to keep himself in a position where he's generating ideas.”

Ideas Position Edges Brian

Author:Jon Brion

“It's not that I ever sat down and outlined a trilogy, but I always have a sense of what size an idea is when I start it.”

Ideas Down And Size Sat Trilogies

Author:Veronica Roth

“Proselytism is solemn nonsense, it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us. Sometimes after a meeting I want to arrange another one because new ideas are born and I discover new needs. This is important: to get to know people, listen, expand the circle of ideas. The world is crisscrossed by roads that come closer together and move apart, but the important thing is that they lead towards the Good.”

People Knows World Want Needs Important Ideas Sometimes Together Moving Born Important Things Meetings Circles Nonsense New Ideas Solemn Knowledge Of The World

Author:Pope Francis

“In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.”

Ideas Force Battle Latter

Book:Liberalism: The Classical Tradition: The Economist

Source: Liberalism: The Classical Tradition: The Economist

“Curious patients are more receptive to new ideas, and those who engage their health practitioners in a dialogue are much more likely to adhere to these recommendations.”

Ideas Patient Dialogue Curious New Ideas Receptive Recommendations

Author:Dean Ornish

“There's lots about politics I don't feel comfortable with. To talk about the politics of future ideas is impossible in soundbite form.”

Feels Ideas Form Impossible Comfortable

Author:Al Gore

“We’re taught at such an early age to be against the communists, yet most of us don’t have the faintest idea what communism is. Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is.”

Ideas Age Enemy Taught Fool Communism Communist

Book:Assata: An Autobiography

Source: Assata: An Autobiography

“I know there are a lot of people out there who have the best intentions but not the voice, so it's about people like me to give them a voice and hear their ideas.”

People Knows Giving Ideas Voice Intention Like Me Best Intentions

Author:Carl Lewis

“The most exciting time is when I think of an idea and how I imagine I can make it. It would be wonderful if there was a projector inside my eye that and it could just put the idea on the screen for people to see.”

People Ifs Thinking I Can Ideas Would Be Eye Imagine Wonderful Exciting Screens Projectors

Author:Marjane Satrapi

“Clinging uncritically to traditional ideas and beliefs often serves to obscure or deny real facts of our life history.”

Ideas Real Facts Belief Our Lives Deny Traditional Obscure Clinging

Book:The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self

Source: The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self

“What is an idea made of? Of future, past and also meanwhile.”

Made Ideas Past

Author:Lynda Barry

“It must be emphasized that as a father, you are always teaching. For good or ill your family learns your ways, your beliefs, your heart, your ideas, your concerns. Your children may or may not choose to follow you, but the example you give is the greatest light you hold before your children, and you are accountable for that light.”

Way Giving Heart May Children Ideas Light Father Belief Teaching Example Concern Our Children Ill Our Family Your Children

Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.

“An intellectual may be interested in ideas and policies for their own sake, but a politician's interest is exclusively in the question of whether an idea's time has come.”

May Ideas Interest Policy Politician Intellectual Sake

Author:Michael Ignatieff

“There is no such thing as a boring person: everyone has stories and insights worth sharing. While on the road, we let our phones or laptops take up our attention. By doing that, we might miss out on the chance to learn and absorb ideas and inspiration from an unexpected source: our fellow travelers.”

“A poem is no place for an idea.”

Author:E. W. Howe

“The interaction between math and physics is a two-way process, with each of the two subjects drawing from and inspiring the other. At different times, one of them may take the lead in developing a particular idea, only to yield to the other subject as focus shifts. But altogether, the two interact in a virtuous circle of mutual influence.”

Way May Two Ideas Different Process Focus Influence Subjects Particular Math Drawing Physics Circles Developing Mutual Yield Interaction Virtuous Two Ways Different Times Lead In

Author:Edward Frenkel

“People tend to think that mathematicians always work in sterile conditions, sitting around and staring at the screen of a computer, or at a ceiling, in a pristine office. But in fact, some of the best ideas come when you least expect them, possibly through annoying industrial noise.”

People Thinking Ideas Facts Conditions Office Computer Sitting Screens Noise Staring Annoying Mathematician Ceilings Sitting Around Pristine

Book:Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality

Source: Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality

“That was the idea behind glam clubs like Seven and The New Eve. You could eat and dance to live music. To enter you had to descend a grand staircase.”

Ideas Behinds Seven Clubs Staircases Glam Live Music

Author:Christian Lacroix

“You need others. Too often people think that being unique means being isolated, and being a great artist means coming up with genius ideas out of nowhere. Nothing could be farther from the truth.”

People Thinking Needs Mean Ideas Artist Genius Unique Isolated Great Art Great Artist Being Unique

Author:John Lasseter

“There’s never a wrong idea. You just keep throwing stuff out and inevitably there are elements of different things that inspire a character or environment.”

Ideas Different Character Stuff Environment Inspire Elements Different Things Throwing Wrong Ideas

Author:John Lasseter

“The idea of African brotherhood is often just a cover-up for laziness. We must see what is achievable in our circumstances and evaluate all decisions. In terms of regional economic integration, sentimentality is not enough. We really have to be frank and honest.”

Ideas Enough Term Decision Economic Honest Circumstances Brotherhood Frank Laziness Integration Evaluate Sentimentality Cover Ups Economic Integration

Author:Benjamin Mkapa

“If you want to look your best, be creative, try some new ideas, and have fun doing it.”

Ifs Want Trying Looks Ideas Fun Creative Having Fun New Ideas Be Creative

Author:Kevyn Aucoin

“Stupid religion makes stupid beliefs, stupid leaders make stupid rules, stupid environment makes stupid health, stupid companions makes stupid behaviour, stupid movies makes stupid acts, stupid food makes stupid skin, stupid bed makes stupid sleep, stupid ideas makes stupid decisions, stupid clothes makes stupid appearance. Lets get rid of stupidity from our stupid short lives.”

Ideas Belief Sleep Decision Leader Environment Stupid Bed Clothes Skins Appearance Stupidity Companion Behaviour Short Life Stupid Ideas Stupid Decision Stupid Movie

Author:Michael Bassey

“You must force yourself to consider opposing arguments. Especially when they challenge your best loved ideas.”

Ideas Force Challenges Argument Opposing Best Love

Author:Charlie Munger

“A lot of peopletell me I'm a bit dreamy, but I like the idea of that. Of being somewhere else.”

Ideas Bits Somewhere Else Dreamy

Author:Alex Turner