“What ideas are convenient to express inevitably becomes the important content of a culture.” — Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death
Tag: ideas
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“When a man ain’t got no ideas of his own … he’d ought to be kind o’ careful who he borrows ’em from.” — Owen Wister, The Virginian
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“Ideas are cheap. It’s only what you do with them that counts.” — Isaac Asimov, “The Secrets of the Universe,”Asimov on Science
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“We should care for each other more than we care for ideas, or else we will end up killing each other.” — Louis de Bernières, Corelli’s Mandolin
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“We listen to views that make us feel good, instead of ideas that make us think hard.” — Adam Grant, Think Again
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“We say, ‘That’s a very interesting idea,’ when we have no intention of taking the idea seriously.” — Peter Senge, The Fifth Discipline
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“Certain ideas overwhelm us by their simplicity.” — V. S. Naipaul, The Mimic Men
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“Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the romance of the unusual.” — Ernest Hemingway, Banal Story
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“Most ideas are born and lost in isolation.” — Scott Belsky, Making Ideas Happen
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“The hardest part about gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche.” — Robert A. Heinlein, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls