#ideas

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives. ↗

— William James

#gained #ideas #lives #men #only

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas. ↗

— Susan Sontag

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I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I'd just write. ↗

— Taylor Swift

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The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor, and they take the ideas of the things that they're learning from him a bit too seriously, with terrible consequences. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#bit #classics #consequences #five #him

Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

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I have big ideas. If you don't like them, don't vote for me. ↗

— Terry McAuliffe

#big ideas #i #ideas #like #me

To find a script that works with provocative ideas is hard to find. ↗

— John McTiernan

#hard #ideas #provocative #script #works

The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things of the mind and spirit. The order of ideas must follow the order of things. ↗

— Giambattista Vico

#carried #express #follow #ideas #languages

In art, and maybe just in general, the idea is to be able to be really comfortable with contradictory ideas. In other words, wisdom might be, seem to be, two contradictory ideas both expressed at their highest level and just let to sit in the same cage sort of, vibrating. So, I think as a writer, I'm really never sure of what I really believe. ↗

— George Saunders

#contradiction #ideas #wisdom #writing #art

Well, it's because I gladly acknowledge some ideas that are part of process theology, but which I think are not tied to all the details of process thought, and are very illuminating and helpful. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

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