"A good idea turns every cog in your mind, making you scared of bed in case the whole machine grinds to a halt."

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Source : "The Riddle: Where Ideas Come From and How to Have Better Ones". Book by Andrew Razeghi, 2008.

Trevor Baylis

#Ideas Quotes #Mind Quotes #Cogs Quotes

“A still photograph is something which you can always go back to. You can put it on your wall and look at it again and again. Because it is that frozen moment. I think it tends to burn into your psyche. It becomes ingrained in your mind. A powerful picture becomes iconic of a place or a time or a situation.”
“That diploma you hold in your hands today is really just your learner's permit for the rest of the drive through life. Remember, you don't have to be smarter than the next person, all you have to do is be willing to work harder than the next person.”

Source : Jimmy Iovine's Commencement Address at University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California, news.usc.edu. May 17, 2013.
“I usually try to make my images look like they just exist, like no effort was put into it.”

Source : CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. August 13, 2007.
“What separates or unites people is not their language, their laws, their customs, their principles, but the way they hold their knife and fork.”

Source : Irène Némirovsky (2006). “Suite Française: Storm in June”, Vintage
“A man will blithely do in politics what he would kick a man downstairs for in ordinary life.”
“The artist must forget the audience, forget the critics, forget the technique, forget everything but love for the music. Then, the music speaks through the performance, and the performer and the listener will walk together with the soul of the composer, and with God.”
“People must be able to use their voice, tell their stories, have their experiences recognized and their voices heard.”
“That the speech of self-disclosure should be translatable seems to me very odd, but I am convinced that it is. The conclusion that I draw is that the only quality which all human being without exception possess is uniqueness: any characteristic, on the other hand, which one individual can be recognized as having in common with another, like red hair or the English language, implies the existence of other individual qualities which this classification excludes.”

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