"One thing in life is for certain, the more profoundly baffled you have been in your life, the more open your mind becomes to new ideas."
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"There is no such thing as a new idea. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope."
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"Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many."
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"We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas."
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"Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work."
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"Getting you a date to prom is so hard that the hypothetical idea itself is used to cut diamonds."
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"You live in a deranged age, more deranged than usual because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing."
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"You must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from the idea that people are watching you."
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"Architecture is not about designing somehting from a free, fanciful idea. It is about discovering and establishing one's own principle, some kind of regularity - finding an individual formula to apply to one's buildings."
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"I think of myself as a doom person. I'm a worrier. But I like the idea of being an optimist. Maybe I'm the kind of optimist who deep down knows it's not going to work."
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"Life is sacred? Who said so, God? Hey, if you read history you'll realize that God is one of the leading causes of death...has been for thousands of years. Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Jews, all taking turns killing each other because God told them it was a good idea."
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"The sense of spiritual relief which comes from rejecting the idea of God as a supernatural being is enormous."
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"Many ideas happen to us. We have intuition, we have feeling, we have emotion, all of that happens, we don't decide to do it. We don't control it."
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"Writing is finally about one thing: going into a room alone and doing it. Putting words on paper that have never been there in quite that way before. And although you are physically by yourself, the haunting Demon never leaves you, that Demon being the knowledge of your own terrible limitations, your hopeless inadequacy, the impossibility of ever getting it right. No matter how diamond-bright your ideas are dancing in your brain, on paper they are earthbound."
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"For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill."
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"Love at first sight? I absolutely believe in it! You've got to keep the faith. Who doesn't like the idea that you could see someone tomorrow and she could be the love of your life? It's very romantic."
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"Ideas often kindle each other, like electrical sparks."
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"When you drop all your ideas, fantasies and projections about who you are and what freedom is and remain completely empty, this is freedom."
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"It is important to remember that great things have no fear of time. We've got to let go of the idea that what we want to manifest has to be done on our time schedule."
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"If you run out of ideas follow the road; you'll get there"
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