Famous Quotes & Sayings

Swami Vivekananda

Worship of society and popular opinion is idolatry.

Swami Vivekananda

The world has not gone one step beyond idolatry yet.

Swami Vivekananda

The test of having ceased to be an idolater is: "When you say 'I', does the body come into your thought or not? If it does, then you are still a worshipper of idols."

Swami Vivekananda

I have long given up the idea of a little house on the Ganges, as I have not the money.

Swami Vivekananda

The idea of God grew side by side with the idea of materialism.

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

If you ever have a new idea, and it's really new, you have to expect that it won't be widely accepted immediately. It's a long hard process.

Rosanne Cash

I wanted to be the writer in the room setting depth charges of feeling out the world with my language.You know, I had a very romantic idea about that.But I grew into being a performer.

Ron Suskind

The key is to put your outrage in a place where you can get it when you need to, but not have it bubble up so much, especially when you're asked to explain new ideas or explain what you observed two people who share none of your experiences.

Ron Wyden

The idea of a federal betting parlor on atrocities and terrorism is ridiculous and it's grotesque.

Ron White

I was so in love with the idea of making people laugh for a living that I didn't care what I had to do to get there. Or how much money I was going to make when I did get there.

Rollo May

The insight is born with anxiety, guilt and the joy and gratification that is inseparable from the actualizing of a new idea or vision.

Samantha Mathis

There's always that feeling of 'Oh, God! One day they'll find out that I really have no idea what I'm doing.

Samantha Shannon

I'm often daydreaming, and it's because I've always liked the idea of there being something more than the normal world.

Tom Peters

An ability to embrace new ideas, routinely challenge old ones, and live with paradox will be the effective leader's premier trait.

Tom Peters

The idea of intimately entwining with customers [to get ideas] is an idea whose time has come.

Tom Peters

Listen to Everyone. Ideas come from everywhere

Tom Peters

The new idea either finds a champion or it dies. No ordinary involvement with a new idea provides the energy required to cope with the indifference and resistance that change provokes.

Tom Peters

Change is not so much about being the first one to embrace a new idea, but being the first to forget an old one

Tom Peters

The greatest difficulty in the world is not for people to accept new ideas, but to make them forget old ideas.

Tom Robbins

Those same forces that drive a genius to create the things or ideas that entertain or enlighten us often gobble so much of his personality that he has none left for the social graces.

Tom Robbins

what bothers me today is the lack of, well, i guess you'd call it authentic experience. so much is a sham. so much is artificial, synthetic, watered-down, and standardized...we're standardizing people, their goals, their ideas. the sham is everywhere.

Tom Robbins

Cultural institutions by and large share one primary objective: herd control. Even when ostensibly benign, their propensity for manipulation, compartmentalization, standardization and suppression of potentially disruptive behavior or ideas, has served to freeze the evolution of consciousness practically in its tracks.

Tom Kite

But Id say that probably 70 percent of the bunkering is more to give you an idea of the direction that you want to go or to save your ball from going into worse places.

Tom Freston

We, as Americans, have so much to learn here. We have a shockingly low level of global awareness and familiarity and little idea of how the world sees us. And those disturbing facts keep getting us into a lot of trouble.

Tom G. Palmer

Most Europeans have no idea how wild life can be in north America.

Tom Araya

Venom was a band that strongly influenced the image and the idea behind Slayer

Tom Baker

We are pre-disposed for fantasy, there is a natural impulse for human beings to want to get off their heads or out of their heads in something in a substance or a drink or an idea or a religion which will comfort them and make life exciting.

Todd Haynes

The ways in which Oscar Wilde was attacking the Romantics that preceded him, and the Romantic ideas that preceded him, were very similar to what the glam-rockers, particularly Bowie and Bryan Ferry, were attacking in the earnestness of '60s culture. Trying to shock, but with wit, cleverness, and homosexuality.

Todd Haynes

Doing a love story as a genre, and looking at love stories in movies, and feeling like I learned stuff about that, and that it broadened my view and my idea of what I can do, and how I can work with the people around me, that was such a great, really satisfying experience.

Tommy Tune

My idea of gambling was walking through Central Park, whistling show tunes.

Tommy Smothers

The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.

Tommy Shaw

I love the idea of stepping out of the band situation into a solo world with no boundaries, no expectations, where nothing is out of bounds

Toni Braxton

When I watched American Idol, I always thought Simon was the most realistic. Simon's like, It was absolutely horrid. That's what they tell in the music industry.