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They enjoy thinking. They enjoy being creative. They enjoy having ideas. Most people do not enjoy thinking at all (Ideas Quotes)
No other person’s ideas, and none of my own ideas, are as authoritative as my experience (Ideas Quotes)
Those same forces that drive a genius to create the things or ideas that entertain or enlighten us often gobble so much of his personality that he has none left for the social graces (Ideas Quotes)
The point is that profound but contradictory ideas may exist side by side, if they are constructed from different materials and methods. and have different purposes. Each tells us something important about where we stand in the universe, and it is foolish to insist that they must despise each other (Ideas Quotes)
Taste tends to develop very unevenly. It’s rare that the same person has good visual taste and good taste in people and taste in ideas (Ideas Quotes)
The job of intellectuals is to come up with ideas, and all we’ve been producing is footnotes (Ideas Quotes)
Books are certainly old fashioned, but only people with a very limited perception are silly enough to condemn ideas because of their age. It is, of course, equally silly to condemn the new fangled simply because it is strange (Ideas Quotes)
Whenever we pride ourselves upon finding a newer, stricter way of thought or exposition? we lose something of the ability to think new thoughts. And equally, of course, whenever we rebel against the sterile rigidity of formal thought and exposition and let our ideas run wild, we likewise lose. As I see it, the advances in scientific thought come from a combination of lose and strict thinking, and this combination is the most precious tool of science (Ideas Quotes)
There are innumerable instances suggesting that modern intellectuals do not believe themselves, that they don’t really believe what they say, that they say certain things only in order to assure themselves that they possess opinions and ideas that are different from those that are entertained by the common herd of men (Ideas Quotes)
In the world of reality, life, and human action there is no such thing as interests independent of ideas, preceding them temporarily and logically. What a man considers his interest is the result of his ideas (Ideas Quotes)
Facts per se can neither prove nor refute anything. Everything is decided by the interpretation and explanation of the facts, by the ideas and the theories (Ideas Quotes)
The harder you chase something, the faster you go and the less you’re able to let life meet life. If you’re having difficulty coming up with new ideas, then slow down (Ideas Quotes)
Art or talent, for an artist, is merely a means of applying his personal faculties to the ideas and the things of the period in which he lives (Ideas Quotes)
From a slight, undetermined drawing, where the ideas of the composition and character are just touched upon, the imagination supplies more than the painter himself, probably, could produce. And we accordingly often find that the finished work disappoints the expectation that was raised from the sketch (Ideas Quotes)
Learning to learn is to know how to navigate in a forest of facts, ideas and theories, a proliferation of constantly changing items of knowledge. Learning to learn is to know what to ignore but at the same time not rejecting innovation and research (Ideas Quotes)
The individual increasingly comes to know who he is through the stand he takes when he expresses his ideas, values, beliefs, and convictions, and through the declaration and ownership of his feelings (Ideas Quotes)
A child sees everything, looks straight at it, examines it, without any preconceived idea; most people, after they are about eleven or twelve, quite lose this power, they see everything through a few preconceived ideas which hang like a veil between them and the outer world (Ideas Quotes)
I am against: general ideas / the nude / the appropriation of images / the mystification of the untitled / the glorification of artistic doubt / the fuzzy edges of sensitivity / old sins / and useless guilt (Ideas Quotes)
When we sit down to work, we become like a magnetized rod that attracts iron filings. Ideas come. Insights accrete (Ideas Quotes)
Concerning all acts of initiative there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too (Ideas Quotes)
When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us... Ideas come. Insights accrete (Ideas Quotes)
The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era’s dominant ideas. In times of crises these men need the guidance of some kind of theory; but, being unfamiliar with the field of ideas, they do not know that alternatives to the popular theories are possible. They know only what they have always been taught (Ideas Quotes)
Each time there is a news story, sometimes that gives ideas to people who then turn into criminals (Ideas Quotes)
Creativity gives new forms, new patterns, new ideas, new art forms. And we don’t know where creativity comes from. Is it inspired from above? Welling up from below? Picked up from the air? What? Creativity is a mystery wherever you encounter it (Ideas Quotes)
A lot of us have all sorts of ideas, and we select some rather than others and give expression to those... and some works of art are more successful than others. Some languish in obscurity and are never heard of again, while others form the foundation of a whole school of art (Ideas Quotes)
The main difference between me and other people who have amassed this kind of money is that I am primarily interested in ideas, and I don’t have much personal use for money (Ideas Quotes)
Despite the fact that I had a writing background, they didn’t want to accept whatever ideas I had as a writer (Ideas Quotes)
I have no idea of what it’s going to look like when I start a piece. Making art is like having a relationship. You want to bring in some ideas, but if you don’t allow it to develop naturally and speak to you as it develops, you end up imposing and projecting upon it (Ideas Quotes)
Of course, your ideas can be stolen... I used to think it was immoral; now I think of it as a compliment... Ultimately, an idea isn’t yours; it’s only your take on something (Ideas Quotes)
The artist... may suppose that ideas are his chief currency; but unless he is also attuned to feelings, in life and in art, he will not move his fellow human beings (Ideas Quotes)