"I meditate and I also think about meditation. Which is funny. I think about Maharishi, about just the idea of meditating. It gives me something."
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"Your understanding of another person is limited by what you think you already know. So when you just listen, the person you meet won't match your preconception. The exciting thing is that you usually meet someone much wiser and kinder than you expected. You might also lose track of your ideas about who you are."
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"It is important for the common good to foster individuality: for only the individual can produce the new ideas which the community needs for its continuous improvement and requirements - indeed, to avoid sterility and petrification"
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"Education perverts the mind since we are directly opposing the natural development of our mind by obtaining ideas first and observations last. This is why so few men of learning have such sound common sense as is quite common among the illiterate."
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"You have no idea of the women I didn't marry."
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"Ideas come from curiosity."
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"If you can't communicate and talk to other people and get across your ideas, you're giving up your potential."
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"Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree."
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"Truth is something that happens to an idea."
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"I like all the families in the U.K. But what I like about the idea of the royal family is... they seem like they're well educated and there's something admirable about them. And the Queen... she reminds me of my grandma."
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"The antidote to hubris, to overweening pride, is irony, that capacity to discover and systematize ideas."
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"To get a great idea, come up with lots of them."
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"The responsibility of leadership is not to come up with all the ideas but to create an environment in which great ideas can thrive."
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"On the whole, money does artists much more good than harm. The idea that one benefits from cold water, crusts and debt collectors is now almost extinct, like belief in the reformatory power of flogging."
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"There is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap."
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"So where do the ideas-the salable ideas-come from? They come from my nightmares. Not the night-time variety, as a rule, but the ones that hide just beyond the doorway that separates the conscious from the unconscious."
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"You try to come up with new ideas, but in the end, people just want to eat Italian food."
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"That is good. It is a law of nature. That is the way with all founders of religion. Without persecution superior ideas cannot penetrate into the heart of society."
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"In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style."
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"The mind effortlessly and automatically takes in new ideas, which remain in limbo until verified or rejected by conscious, rational analysis."
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