#ideas

Our ideas are for the most part like bad sixpences, and we spend our lives trying to pass them on one another. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#bad #ideas #like #lives #most

I think that three-act fundamentalism in film culture is a problem sometimes, because it's almost too obvious, or it's too expected. And it's not the only way to fill two hours, or to phrase things, or to order thoughts, or order ideas. ↗

— Jane Campion

#because #culture #expected #fill #film

I am, first of all, a Christian and, secondly, a person with very very serious personal opinion, so I'm motivated by many many things and, certainly, not by the need or desire to satisfy other people's ideas of who I am. ↗

— Ken Hensley

#certainly #christian #desire #first #first of all

It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil. ↗

— John Maynard Keynes

#evil #good #ideas #interests #vested

The television industry doesn't like to see the compexity of the world. It prefers simple reporting, with simple ideas: this is white, that's black; this is good, that's bad. ↗

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

#black #good #ideas #industry #like

It is important to nurture any new ideas and initiatives which can make a difference for Africa. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#any #difference #ideas #important #initiatives

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

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

I thought I had swell ideas, and wonderful musicians, but the hell of it, no one else did. ↗

— Glenn Miller

#else #had #hell #i #ideas