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Idea Quotes (page 79)

The calender of the Theocracy of Muntab counts down, not up. No-one knows why, but it might not be a good idea to hang around and find out. Terry Prachett
I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.... Unless you have a lotof passion about this, you're not going to survive. You're going to give it up. So you've got to have an idea, or a problem or a wrong that you want to right that you're passionate about; otherwise, you're not going to have the perseverance to stick it through. Steve Jobs
She spoke of evenings in the country making popcorn on the porch. Once this would have gladdened my heart but because her heart was not glad when she said it I knew there was nothing in it but the idea of what one should do. Jack Kerouac
There is one thing that has disappeared, not just from the U.S. but from the entire world, is the idea of ever being embarrased by anything. Fran Lebowitz
You actually cannot sell the idea of freedom, democracy, diversity, as if it were a brand attribute and not reality -- not at the same time as you're bombing people, you can't. Naomi Klein
We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt. Dallas Willard
Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the God idea, not God Himself. Miguel de Unamuno
Richard Dawkins quote: "The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of..."
The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe. Richard Dawkins
A short story is a sprint, a novel is a marathon. Sprinters have seconds to get from here to there and then they are finished. Marathoners have to carefully pace themselves so that they don't run out of energy (or in the case of the novelist-- ideas) because they have so far to run. To mix the metaphor, writing a short story is like having a short intense affair, whereas writing a novel is like a long rich marriage. Jonathan Carroll
Joseph Joubert quote: "It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas. 102"
It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas. 102 Joseph Joubert
Thus, from admiration of one wise and innocent child, and from a misheard remark, the process that not even Aristotle could codify was triggered. Where do you get your ideas? I purposely mishear things. Harlan Ellison
Occasionally, there arises a writing situation where you see an alternative to what you are doing, a mad, wild gamble of a way for handling something, which may leave you looking stupid, ridiculous or brilliant -you just don't know which. You can play it safe there, too, and proceed along the route you'd mapped out for yourself. Or you can trust your personal demon who delivered that crazy idea in the first place.Trust your demon. Roger Zelazny
I think that perhaps if I had had to slow down the ideas so that I could capture them on paper I might have stifled some of them. J. K. Rowling
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances."
Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances. Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romanticperson has a desperate confidence that they won't. F. Scott Fitzgerald

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