Ideas Quotes

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The value of a problem is not so much coming up with the answer as in the ideas and attempted ideas it forces on the… — Israel Nathan Herstein
For what is important when we give children a theorem to use is not that they should memorize it. What matters most is that by… — Seymour Papert
As one reads mathematics, one needs to have an active mind, asking questions, forming mental connections between the current topic and other ideas from other… — William Thurston
All learning begins when our comfortable ideas turn out to be inadequate. — John Dewey
I came into the Agency with a set of ideas and attitudes that were quite typical of people coming into the Agency at that time.… — Aldrich Ames
We should find ourselves committed to killing a great many people whom we now leave living, and to leave living a great many people whom… — George Bernard Shaw
The best part of it for me is the idea that this group of young men, who came together and believed in themselves, bought the… — Tom Coughlin
Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each must hold it's own; if it doesn't, the thing collapses. — Arnold Newman
My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, or the camera's eye may entirely change my idea. — Edward Weston
The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not… — Edward Steichen
I really don't have any idea about photography, but I take pictures. — Alex Majoli
Chess can never reach its height by following in the path of science ... Let us, therefore, make a new effort and with the help… — Jose Raul Capablanca
You can't think and play. If you think about what you're playing the playing becomes stilted. You have to just focus on the music I… — Joe Pass
I want to figure out how I can make the most important statement with the least amount of information, so I don't run out of… — Larry Carlton
It began when I was so ill that there was a good chance of dying. I promised myself that if I survived I would never… — Helmut Newton
There are many forms of photography. I consider myself simply a recorder of that which I find of interest around me. I personally have no… — David Hurn
I start with no preconceived idea - discovery excites me to focus - then rediscovery through the lens - final form of presentation seen on… — Edward Weston
The two ideas are antithetical. Insofar as photography is (or should be) about the world, the photographer counts for little, but insofar as it is… — Susan Sontag
This idea fascinates me. The idea that a few seconds of watching a photographer in action can tell you his/her status in the medium. And… — David Hurn
A camera has interesting ideas of its own. — John Szarkowski
Iain Dowie famously coined the phrase 'bouncebackability' to describe Crystal Palace's ability to come from behind. But this is a typical manager's idea, so optimistic.… — Daniel Finkelstein
Producing a photographic document involves preparation in excess. There is first the examination of the idea of the project. Then the visits to the scene,… — Aaron Siskind
If you are not passionately devoted to an idea, you can make very pleasant pictures but they won't make you cry. — Ruth Bernhard
When the novice photographer starts taking pictures, he carries his camera about and shoots everything that interests him. There comes a time when he must… — Alexey Brodovitch
Whenever a single definite object is made the supreme end of the State, be it the advantage of a class, the safety of the power… — Lord Acton

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