- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ideas Quotes
Where good ideas actually come from, and don't.
Several ideas quotes here take a skeptical angle, doubting that the best thinking flows from any single center of power, while another connects free expression directly to the unlimited spread of ideas online. The Good collection covers a related sense of judgment.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Arranging
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have my ideas of what a good documentary is, but drama is a different animal because you're arranging everything.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't let myself get carried away by my own ideas - I abandon 19 out of 20 of them every day.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like immense time-binding discussions, genres allow ideas to be developed and traded, and for variations to be spun down through decades.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
Invoking nature with its implied supremacy ignores that many cultures have fundamentally differing ideas of even what nature is, much less how it should work.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like audacious ideas.
- Emotion
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- Nov 07, 2020
All ideas come about through some sort of observation. It sparks an attitude; some object or emotion causes a reaction in the other person.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not an academic; I'm not an archaeologist. I'm a writer, communicating ideas to the public. There is a model of how the past is, and a lot of academic archaeology is about refining the model. It's not about changing the model radically. I'm not aware of any current which is about radically changing the model. It's just me, really.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was working with C. L. R. James; I believed in Marxist ideas about the labor and movement and the workers being the secret to the future. And I learned differently just by being in Detroit and being married to Jimmy Boggs.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads.
- Principles
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- Nov 07, 2020
Finally there are simple ideas of which no definition can be given; there are also axioms or postulates, or in a word primary principles, which cannot be proved and have no need of proof.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
It can have its effect only through the intervention of God, inasmuch as in the ideas of God a monad rightly demands that God, in regulating the rest from the beginning of things, should have regard to itself.
- Reason
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas and truths until the primary ones are reached.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020