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"I really want some meaning. It used to be easy to toss it off. Now it's harder and harder. You have to navigate just to find something that has nourishment. It's the absence of nourishment. What do you do in place of nourishment? It's usually junk. Either it's junk food or junk clothes or junk ideas."
"Sugar crystallizes something in our American Soul. It is emblematic of all Industrial Processes. And of the idea of becoming white. White Being equated with pure and ‘true’ it takes a lot of energy to turn brown things into white things. A lot of pressure."
"The individual's duty is to do what he wants to do, to think whatever he likes, to be accountable to no one but himself, to challenge every idea and every person."
"The best time to set up a new discipline is when the idea is strong."
"Use your freedom to experiment with visual ideas."
"You cannot kill an ideology with a bullet. You can only kill it with a better idea."
"A number of people still think of the United States as being overwhelmingly English, Protestant, and white. This erroneous idea influences their whole outlook."
"My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me...you will lead me by the right road, though I may know nothing about it. Therefore I will trust you always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death. I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone."
"No Ideas original - there is nothing new under the sun."
"Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought."
"Colorless green ideas sleep furiously."
"A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering."
"Don't use your mind for a filing cabinet. Use your mind to work out problems and find answers; file away good ideas in your journal."
"In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance... you thrive on that."
"Follow Your Bliss. Not someone else’s idea of your bliss. Not what you think should be your bliss. Not what you think would impress the crowd or appease the family. Your BLISS. What truly gets you giddy."
"I'm never at my worst because even at my lowest, its a learning experience. It's something that I'll bounce ideas off. I can take negatives and flip them to positives at all times."
"And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss."
"Ideas are cheap. I have more ideas now than I could ever write up. To my mind, it's the execution that is all-important."
"For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned"
"We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas."
