"When I'm a part of someone else's creative process, it's all about facilitating their ideas and hopefully bringing their perspective and making it a part of a song."
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"Whatsoever thy birth, Thou wert a beautiful thought, and softly bodied forth."
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"Ideas on earth were badges of friendship or enimity. Their content did not matter. Friends agreed with friends, in order to express friendliness. Enemies disagreed with enemies, in order to express enimity."
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"You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea."
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"Be sympathetic with the other person's ideas and desires."
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"My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself."
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"There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear."
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"This idea that America is somehow on the verge of collapse, this vision of violence and chaos everywhere, doesn't really jibe with the experience of most people."
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"Ideas are the source of all things"
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"If anyone has a new idea in this country, there are twice as many people who keep putting a man with a red flag in front of it."
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"The best work comes from people who are motivated by crisis. When something stops their original idea, they respond by coming up with something even better."
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"Every valuable creative idea must always be logical in hindsight. If it were not, we would never be able to see its value."
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"If you think about Don Quixote, Don Quixote is this guy who wants to live as if he was in a medieval chivalric romance, when actually he lives in sixteenth-century Spain, which is already going through secularization, industrialization, modernization. He goes out to kill a giant, and instead he collides with this huge windmill and injures himself and also damages the windmill. I think that's a metaphor for the collisions we all have over time, as our ideas of ourselves get out of synch with the historical moment."
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"I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the monkey mind. The thoughts that swing from limb to limb, stopping only to scratch themselves, spit and howl. My mind swings wildly through time, touching on dozens of ideas a minute, unharnessed and undisciplined. You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions."
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"Ah, good conversation - there's nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing."
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"When you put off a task, you buy yourself time to engage in divergent thinking rather than foreclosing on one particular idea."
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"We don't see very far in the future, we are very focused on one idea at a time, one problem at a time, and all these are incompatible with rationality as economic theory assumes it."
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"People just hate the idea of losing. Any loss, even a small one, is just so terrible to contemplate that they compensate by buying insurance, including totally absurd policies like air travel."
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"It's really important to share the idea that being different might feel like a problem at the time, but ultimately diversity is a strength."
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"Masonic ideas are the precious jewels of Speculative Masons; the should be kept bright and sparkling for all the brethren to see and to admire. As such, they should be the special care of Masonic leaders particularly those who teach and interpret the philosophy of Freemasonry."
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