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There is no way to create wealth without ideas. Most new ideas are created by newcomers. So anyone who thinks the world is safe for incumbents is dead wrong.
Anyone can produce a new fact; the thing is to produce a new idea.
My idea of managing is giving the ball to Tom Seaver and sitting down and watching him work.
At this young age I am already sold on the idea of the dog. One of God's absolutely greatest inventions and one that needs no more tinkering. The dog is the perfect beast, companion, friend, shoulder to lean on, and scapegoat when too many cookies are missing. And a dog won't hold that against you, either. I am at peace sitting in silence with a dog.
Knowing who you are is good for one generation only. You haven't the foggiest idea where you stand now or who you are
The way in which we experience and interpret the world obviously depends very much indeed on the kind of ideas that fill our minds. If they are mainly small, weak, superficial, and incoherent, life will appear insipid , uninteresting, petty and chaotic.
No degree of prosperity could justify_x000D_ the accumulation of large amounts of highly toxic substances which nobody knows how to _x000D_make safe and which remain an incalculable danger to the whole of creation for historical or _x000D_even geological ages. To do such a thing is a transgression against life itself, _x000D_a transgression infinitely more serious than any crime perpetrated by man. _x000D_The idea that a civilization could sustain itself on such a transgression is an ethical, spiritual, and metaphysical monstrosity. It means conducting the economical affairs of man _x000D_as if people did not matter at all.
The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political; it also meant the exchange of knowledge and ideas and the influence of social institutions and artistic and literary forms
Being a Christian is more like falling in love than understanding a series of ideas.
If there's one thing I feel very strongly about, it's that there shouldn't be a distinction between pianists who play Ligeti and those who play Chopin. It might seem that they involve different skill sets, but I don't think that's true: whether playing Ives or Bach or Beethoven, you must bring the same imagination, the same sensitivity, and an ability to deal with same kinds of musical problems. The method behind my madness, anyway, is to keep plugging away at this idea.
When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea
Women, like men, ought to have their years so glutted with freedom that they hate the very idea of freedom.
When you once get an idea in which you believe with all your heart, work it out.
The idea came like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed.
The idea of the European community is never face a war again.
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention. It's their 'ideas' that appeal to me. I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor
The idea that we live in a post-modern culture is a myth. In fact a post-modern culture is an impossibility; it would be utterly unlivable. Nobody is a post-modernist when it comes to reading the labels on a medicine bottle versus a box of rat poison! You better believe that texts have objective meaning!
If Jesus is the Son of God, his teachings are more than just good ideas from a wise teacher; they are divine insights on which I can confidently build my life.
The idea that the United States is going to win the war in Iraq is just plain wrong.
It is already a great thing if the main ideas and general outline of a work come without any racking of brains, as the result of that supernatural and inexplicable force we call inspiration.
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