"I am grateful for the idea that has used me."
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"Disneyland is something that will never be finished. It's something that I can keep developing. It will be a live, breathing thing that will need change. A picture is a thing, once you wrap it up and turn it over to Technicolor, you're through. Snow White is a dead issue with me. But I can change the park, because it's alive."
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"All literature is a footnote to Faust. I have no idea what I mean by that."
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"The universe is merely a fleeting idea in God's mind -- a pretty uncomfortable thought, particularly if you've just made a down payment on a house."
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"When you get an idea into your head you find it in everything."
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"Realization consists of getting rid of the false idea that one is not realized."
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"We tend to disempower ourselves. We tend to believe that we don’t matter. And in the act of taking that idea to ourselves we give everything away to somebody else, to something else."
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"Modernity is a desert, and we are jungle monkeys. And so new evolutionary selective pressures are coming to bear upon the human situation, new ideas are coming to the fore. Psilocybin is a selective filter for this. The wish to go to space is a selective filter for this. Just the wish to know your own mind is a selective filter for this."
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"Interesting thing, these fellows never seem to get the idea of perspective-' The Bursar thought, or received the thought: that's because perspective is a lie. If I know a pond is round then why should I draw it oval? I will draw it round because round is true. Why should my brush lie to you just because my eye lies to me?"
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"Ideas without execution are hallucinations."
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"I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention. It's their 'ideas' that appeal to me. I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor"
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"Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state."
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"I always start out with an idea, even a boring idea, that becomes a question I don't have answers to."
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"I think some bands thrive on the idea of changing instruments. When they're off their real instrument, the ability to go very far from the original idea is reduced."
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"If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it."
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"The challenge is simple: Quitting when you hit the Dip is a bad idea. If the journey you started was worth doing, then quitting when you hit the Dip just wastes the time you’ve already invested. Quit in the Dip often enough and you’ll find yourself becoming a serial quitter, starting many things but accomplishing little. Simple: If you can’t make it through the Dip, don’t start. If you can embrace that simple rule, you’ll be a lot choosier about which journeys you start."
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"To develop working ideas efficiently, I try to fail as fast as I can."
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"Simple ideas are easier to understand. Ideas that are easier to understand are repeated. Ideas that are repeated change the world."
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"Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison."
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"I think that science fiction has a distinct therapeutic value because all of it has as its primary postulate that the world does change. I cannot overemphasize the importance of that idea."
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