#idea

Students need to learn how to think critically, how to argue opposing ideas. It is important for them to learn how to think. You can always cook. ↗

— Charlie Trotter

#argue #cook #critically #how #ideas

We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion. ↗

— Anne Sullivan Macy

#change #conclusion #experimenting #ideas #logical

I had no idea how difficult Sondheim's music would be. All through the rehearsals, I kept flubbing. There were so many tempo changes. I could never get through the opening number without any mistakes. One day, I went up to Hal Prince and offered to leave the show. He laughed it off. He said, "Don't be silly. That's why we have tryouts." ↗

— Mako

#changes #could #day #difficult #get

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive. ↗

— Nicolas Malebranche

#eyes #ideas #just #light #minds

The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction. ↗

— Yann Martel

#book #fiction #flip #idea #me

Taught to regard a part of our own Species in the most abject and contemptible Degree below us, we lose that Idea of the dignity of Man which the Hand of Nature had implanted in us, for great and useful purposes. ↗

— George Mason

#below #contemptible #degree #dignity #great

I've been watching politics for 35 or 40 years and you just never know. You can have one person win the Iowa caucus and then the whole picture changes ten minutes later. The same thing can happen again after New Hampshire. I have no idea what's going to happen with our country in the future. ↗

— Jackie Mason

#again #been #caucus #changes #country

Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each must hold it's own; if it doesn't, the thing collapses. ↗

— Arnold Newman

#combined #each #equals #hold #ideas

Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think. ↗

— Randy Newman

#anthropology #any #even #evolution #fantastic

I spend a lot of time preparing. I think a lot about what I want to do. I have prep books, little notebooks in which I write everything down before a sitting. Otherwise I would forget my ideas. ↗

— Helmut Newton

#before #books #down #everything #forget