519 Quotes About Idea


  • Author Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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    You see gentlemen, there are ideas . . . that is, you see, when some ideas are said out loud, put into words, they come out terribly stupid. They come out so that you're ashamed of yourself. But why? For no reason at all. Because we're all good-for-nothings and can't bear the truth, or I don't know why else.

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  • Author Giorgio Gaber
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    Un'idea, un concetto, un'idea, finché resta un'idea è soltanto un'astrazione.

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  • Author Ed Catmull
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    This principle eludes most people, but it is critical: You are not your idea, and if you identify too closely with your ideas, you will take offense when they are challenged.

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  • Author Robert Jackson Bennett
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    A people believe in a god' - she completes the circle -' and the god tells them what to believe. It's a cycle, like water flowing into the ocean, then up to the skies, and into rain, which falls and flows into the ocean. But it is different in that ideas have weight. They have momentum. Once an idea starts, it spreads and grows and gets heavier and heavier until it can't be resisted, even by the Divine.

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  • Author Mira Grant
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    Once Sally gets an idea in her head, there's not much room for too much else...

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