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Ideas Quotes by V.S. Naipaul
- I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a…
- I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.
- One isn’t born one’s self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people’s ideas – and you have to work…
- If it was Europe that gave us on the coast some idea of our history, it was Europe, I feel, that also introduced us to…
- In Trinidad, where as new arrivals we were a disadvantaged community, that excluding idea was a kind of protection; it enabled us - for the…
- Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.
- The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I…
- After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
- I often wonder what would have happened to me if I hadn't made that decision. I suppose I would have sunk. I suppose I would…
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- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer. — Giorgio Armani
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea. — Richard Bach
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. — Mary Kay Ash
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe