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At Pixar, good ideas may be cut from a film, but they are never forgotten.
John Lasseter
Good
Good Ideas
Never
Ideas
May
Forgotten
Pixar
Cut
Film
Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.
John Locke
Dreams
Reflection
Mind
Understanding
Our
Ideas
Without
Reverie
Regard
Float
The themes, ideas and the characters from 'Skyfall' can obviously continue on, because it is a franchise, and it is an ongoing story.
John Logan
Franchise
Characters
Ongoing
Ideas
Obviously
Because
Continue
Story
Themes
There are readers who want every point to be clearly and unambiguously set forth, and there are those who want to pry ideas and meanings out for themselves.
John M. Ford
Every
Those
Out
Point
Clearly
Ideas
Readers
Pry
Want
Forth
Themselves
Meanings
Who
Set
Free-enterprise capitalism is the most powerful system for social cooperation and human progress ever conceived. It is one of the most compelling ideas we humans have ever had. But we can aspire to something even greater.
John Mackey
Capitalism
Progress
System
Something
Had
Powerful
Conceived
Ideas
Most
Most Powerful
Greater
Human
Social
Aspire
Human Progress
Even
Cooperation
Ever
Compelling
Humans
The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.
John Maynard Keynes
Power
National
Excessive
Part
Ideas
Powers
Greater
Errors
Than
May
Autocracy
Convention
Either
Bursting
Played
Disruptive
Bonds
I am always interested in helping and growing new tech start-ups and ideas.
John McAfee
New
Ideas
Always
Am
Interested
Helping
Growing
Tech
You see a lot of good ideas or well-written scripts that are bad ideas.
John McTiernan
Good
You
Good Ideas
Bad
See
Bad Ideas
Ideas
Well-Written
Lot
Scripts
Everything I see and hear... I will take ideas from anyplace, anywhere, anytime, and life has become a song to me. I'm always looking for a song.
John Mellencamp
Life
Me
Song
Will
Looking
Become
Everything
See
Take
Ideas
Always
Hear
Anytime
Anywhere
Usually, every match in the WWE, I was the one with the stupid ideas. I'm trying to figure out how to jump off the stage or turn the logo into a weapon or obstacle.
John Morrison
Stupid
Stage
Every
Out
Weapon
Obstacle
Ideas
Match
WWE
How
Off
Jump
Trying
Turn
Figure
Neurologists say that our brains are programmed much more for stories than for abstract ideas. Tales with a little drama are remembered far longer than any slide crammed with analytics.
John P. Kotter
Drama
Our
Slide
Say
More
Remembered
Abstract
Longer
Tales
Ideas
Brains
Than
Any
Crammed
Stories
Little
Far
Much
Programmed
All organizations start with a structure that looks like a dynamic solar system. They can be very fast, agile. They attract people who play around with crazy ideas.
John P. Kotter
Crazy
People
Solar
Solar System
System
Structure
Like
Ideas
Attract
Looks
Around
Very
Dynamic
Organizations
Agile
Who
Fast
Play
Start
If all ideas have to be bought, then you have an intellectually regressive system that will assure you have a highly knowledgeable elite and an ignorant mass.
John Perry Barlow
You
Will
Assure
System
Bought
Highly
Mass
Ideas
Knowledgeable
Intellectually
Then
Ignorant
Elite
There are people who kind of gravitate towards running politics based on new ideas and issues, and that was what the secret was for Clinton.
John Podesta
Politics
People
Secret
Kind
Running
Towards
New
Ideas
New Ideas
Issues
Clinton
Who
Based
Gravitate
That doesn't necessarily mean they have to have an explicit proposal that they put forward that all Democrats sign up to, but I think they need to throw some ideas out that, at least directionally, point the way forward.
John Podesta
Think
Way
Sign
Out
Some
Point
Proposal
Throw
Put
Ideas
Democrats
Least
Up
Mean
Explicit
Forward
Necessarily
Need
While negativity is politically useful, it is also demoralizing unless it is accompanied - and to some extent overshadowed - by elevated and inspiring ideas about the American future.
John Podhoretz
Future
Negativity
Unless
Some
About
Inspiring
Ideas
Also
Demoralizing
Accompanied
Overshadowed
American
Politically
While
Useful
Elevated
Extent
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
Thought
Think
Details
Some
Gladly
Part
Ideas
Well
Tied
Because
Very
Acknowledge
Process
Which
Theology
Helpful
Illuminating
Since I tend to be pretty competitive and find that others on my team enjoy contests and team competitions, I thought a good way to improve feedback would be to create a way to reward the comments and ideas that actually change our company for the better.
John Rampton
Good
Change
Better
Feedback
Reward
Thought
Enjoy
Others
Our
Way
Would
Would-Be
Find
Pretty
Tend
Good Way
Since
Ideas
Contests
Comments
Improve
Create
Team
Company
Actually
Competitions
Competitive
When we've been bold on the Bank of England, on PFI, on great constitutional change, on the New Deal, we've been most successful. So what we have to continue to try and do is to battle with ideas and find new ways of applying those values as the world changes.
John Reid
Great
Change
Battle
World
Try
Values
Changes
Ways
Those
Find
Constitutional
New
Ideas
Most
New Deal
Deal
Continue
Been
New Ways
Bank
Successful
England
Bold
World Changes
Applying
We taped all this and then got it transcribed and picked the best lines or ideas or ways to take a scene. I've done that many times, and it can improve the script but also wreck a perfectly good scene.
John Schlesinger
Best
Good
Ways
Wreck
Scene
Take
Picked
Perfectly
Ideas
Also
Got
Lines
Times
Improve
Done
Script
Then
Many
Let's not dismiss or attack individual ideas as being inadequate before we have had a chance to assess their positive effect as part of a whole solution.
John Thune
Positive
Before
Solution
Attack
Individual
Had
Part
Ideas
Effect
Being
Inadequate
Dismiss
Whole
Assess
Chance
The cinema has done more for my spiritual life than the church. My ideas of fame, success and beauty all originate from the big screen. Whereas Christian religion is retreating everywhere and losing more and more influence; film has filled the vacuum and supports us with myths and action-controlling images.
John Updike
Life
Success
Religion
Spiritual
Cinema
Losing
Church
Beauty
Big
Christian
Everywhere
Spiritual Life
More
More And More
Myths
Supports
Ideas
Retreating
Fame
Than
Done
Big Screen
Screen
Influence
Whereas
Us
Filled
Film
Originate
Christian Religion
Images
Vacuum
It is sometimes said that the major discoveries have already been made and that there is nothing important left to find. This attitude is altogether too pessimistic. There are plenty of ideas and plenty of things left to discover. The trick is to find the right path from one to the other.
John Vane
Attitude
Sometimes
Path
Made
Important
Nothing
Too
Other
Right Path
Plenty
Trick
Find
Major
Ideas
Altogether
Said
Been
Discover
Discoveries
Left
Pessimistic
Right
Things
The great thing about living in New York is the constant change of things. It inspires me to keep moving, push forward, question ideas.
John Varvatos
Great
Me
Change
Keep Moving
Living
Constant
About
Inspires
Push
New
Ideas
Great Thing
Question
York
New York
Moving
Forward
Keep
Thing
Things
I know that in the battle of ideas, Republican politicians are at a distinct disadvantage. Their fundamental philosophy - which I characterize as survival of the fittest, richest and whitest - is too callous for most Americans.
John Yarmuth
Survival
Battle
Politicians
Too
Philosophy
Distinct
Characterize
Disadvantage
Ideas
Know
Most
Callous
Fittest
American
Which
Republican
Richest
Fundamental
I had to learn how to work in a studio at first because it's a totally different creative environment to the 'bedroom recordings' I'd done before, where I could translate my own ideas without having to explain them to anyone.
Johnny Flynn
Work
Creative
First
Before
Own
Totally
My Own
Having
Recordings
Could
Had
Studio
Environment
Ideas
Learn
Because
Without
How
Bedroom
Done
Where
Different
Anyone
Explain
Them
Translate
Creative Environment
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