A Quote by Alain de Botton
The problem isn't so much finding good ideas (there is no shortage) as embedding the ones we have into everyday practice.
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There's no shortage of great ideas. There's a shortage of execution.
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If anything, my problem is, I'm not a genius, it's just that I can write songs very quick. I have a lot of ideas, let's put it that way - I have too many ideas. And my problem is, I stockpile ideas and I get lazy and I don't finish them, and next thing I know, I'm looking around and I've got a hundred song ideas, but are any of them any good? I don't know.
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