Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maxwell Maltz

It is no exaggeration to say that every human being is hypnotized to some extent either by ideas he has uncritically accepted from others or ideas he has repeated to himself or convinced himself are true. These negative ideas have exactly the same effect upon our behavior as the negative ideas implanted into the mind of a hypnotized subject by a professional hypnotist.

Maxim Gorky

God is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.

Maxim Gorky

The illness of a doctor is always worse than the illnesses of his patients.The patients only feel, but the doctor, as well as feeling, has a pretty good idea of the destructive effect of the disease on his constitution.This is a case in which knowledge brings death nearer.

Max Carver

Getting anything off the ground is going to require a little bit of risk. That risk starts with sharing the idea.

Matthew McConaughey

Good ideas are free - or at least they should be.

Matthew Ashford

Cartoons have always been an enjoyment to me... a relaxation... I get my ideas from everyday events.

Mark Shields

[In politics] when A goes after B and there's a C, and D and a Q all lined up there, you have no idea who's going to be the beneficiary.

Marina Warner

I love titles and organizing chains of ideas. I like that very much.

Marina Warner

I see the carpet reflecting that narratological structure of the storytelling, with Scheherazade as the outside frame story on the outside, with the stories woven on the inside. It's also demonstrative of the infinity of it, with no beginning and no end. The carpet is also a kind of metonym for cinema, this idea that the flat surface carries a terrific depth of imaginative field while remaining totally flat.

Marina Abramovic

The most revolutionary ideas are not sellable, but only mind-changing.

Marina Abramovic

I am only interested in the ideas that become obsessive and make me feel uneasy. The ideas that I'm afraid of.

Maria Montessori

The concept of an education centered upon the care of the living being alters all previous ideas. Resting no longer on a curriculum, or a timetable, education must conform to the facts of human life.

Matisyahu

Reggae music isn't Jewish, but a lot of the ideas are.

Matisyahu

The idea that God’s mercy is connected to whether or not I shave is ludicrous and I need to just trust myself, and that, you know, if I’m deserving of God’s mercy, I’ll get it, regardless of, you know, my beard,

The crows, the idle person grumbles. - Yoruba, Nigeria

Edward Carpenter

My ideas had been taking a socialistic shape for many years; but they were lacking in definite outline.

Edward de Bono

Every valuable creative idea must always be logical in hindsight. If it were not, we would never be able to see its value.

Edward de Bono

A characteristic of intuitive solutions and new ideas is that of being obvious once they are discovered.

Edward de Bono

The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.

Edward de Bono

On trade, our hypocrisy is at its most appalling. Trade reform isn't about charity, it's about justice, and this campaign, Trade Justice is an unstoppable idea.

Edgard Varese

There is an idea, the basis of an internal structure, expanded and split into different shapes or groups of sound constantly changing in shape, direction, and speed, attracted and repulsed by various forces.

Edith Hamilton

One form of religion perpetually gives way to another; if religion did not change it would be dead. ... Each time the new ideas appear they are seen at first as a deadly foe threatening to make religion perish from the earth; but in the end there is a deeper insight and a better life with ancient follies and prejudices gone.

Eckhart Tolle

My sense of identity broke down and was replaced by something that is very hard to put into words. Awareness, Consciousness.

Janina Gavankar

I identify more as a musician than as a singer, because I play piano and percussion, and I engineer and produce everything that I do.

Holbrook Jackson

As soon as an idea is accepted it is time to reject it.

Jonathan Ive

At the start of the process the idea is just a thought - very fragile and exclusive. When the first physical manifestation is created everything changes. It is no longer exclusive, now it involves a lot of people.

Jonathan Ive

There are 9 rejected ideas for every idea that works.

Jonathan Ive

The best ideas start as conversations.

Jonathan Ive

What I love about the creative process, and this may sound naive, but it is this idea that one day there is no idea, and no solution, but the next day there is an idea. I find that incredibly exciting and conceptually actually remarkable.

Jonathan Ive

There's no learning without trying lots of ideas and failing lots of times.

Jonathan Haidt

It really is a fact that liberals are much higher than conservatives on a major personality trait called 'openness to experience.' People who are high on openness to experience just crave novelty, variety, diversity, new ideas, travel. People low on it like things that are familiar, that are safe and dependable.

Jonathan Franzen

Sounded to me like he had a pretty good idea what he was saying," Van replied, with surprisingly little anger. "It's a pity he had to overintellectualize like that. He did such good work, and then he had to go and intellectualize it.

Jonathan Franzen

she was so much a personality and so little anything else that even staring straight at her he had no idea what she really looked like.