Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Branson

If you have an idea that's going to make a big difference to people's lives, and other people are not doing it, you know, just say "screw it," do it and get on with it, and give it a go.

Richard Branson

I have always lived my life by making lists: lists of people to call, lists of ideas, lists of companies to set up, lists of people who can make things happen. Each day I work through these lists, and that sequence of calls propels me forward.

Richard Branson

Ideas Are The Lifeblood Of Business. Capture Every Fleeting Idea And Drive For Change.

Richard Branson

A business is simply an idea to make other people's lives better.

Swami Vivekananda

There will never be a perfectly good or bad world, because the very idea is a contradiction in terms.

Swami Vivekananda

The very idea of an infinite in place would be a contradiction in terms, as a place must begin and continue in time.

Swami Vivekananda

All these ideas such as astrology, although there may be a grain of truth in them, should be avoided.

Swami Vivekananda

The Indian idea is that the soul is formless. Whatever is form must break some time or other.

Swami Vivekananda

Throw overboard all idea of jealousy and egotism, once for all. Come on to the practical field with tremendous energy; to work, in the fullness of strength! As to the rest, the Lord will point out the way.

Timur Bekmambetov

Every commercial covers different ground, different ideas, and it's my profession to direct and to tell stories - for me, it's very organic.

Tim Hetherington

I'm very open to any visual conceits and any possibilities at my disposal to be better explain to people the ideas I'm exploring.

Tim Heidecker

Most of my ideas just come out funny.

Thurgood Marshall

It is now well established that the Constitution protects the right to receive information and ideas. ... This right to receive information and ideas, regardless of their social worth, ... is fundamental to our free society.

Thomas Woods

Nullification is the Jeffersonian idea that the states of the American Union must judge the constitutionality of the acts of their agent, the federal government, since no impartial arbiter between them exists.

Thorstein Veblen

The quasi-peaceable gentleman of leisure, then, not only consumes of the staff of life beyond the minimum required for subsistence and physical efficiency, but his consumption also undergoes a specialisation as regards the quality of the goods consumed. He consumes freely and of the best, in food, drink, narcotics, shelter, services, ornaments, apparel, weapons and accoutrements, amusements, amulets, and idols or divinities.

Robert Andrews Millikan

My idea of an educated person is one who can converse on one subject for more than two minutes.

Robert A. Heinlein

Never force an idea; you'll abort it if you do.

Robert A. Heinlein

The hardest part of gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche.

Robert A. Heinlein

If you happen to be one of the fretful minority who can do creative work, never force an idea; you'll abort it if you do. Be patient and you'll give birth to it when the time is ripe. Learn to wait.

Robert A. Heinlein

The hardest part about gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche. As long as that niche is occupied, evidence and proof and logical demonstration get nowhere. But once the niche is emptied of the wrong idea that has been filling it:; once you can honestly say, "I don't know", then it becomes possible to get at the truth.

Robert A. Heinlein

How can I possibly put a new idea into your heads, if I do not first remove your delusions?

Rirkrit Tiravanija

I never give too much thought to the idea of universality.

Rirkrit Tiravanija

My starting point was the search for my identity in foreign places, in places where I am estranged from myself.

Rirkrit Tiravanija

If we have too much clarity, we might not be compelled to continue searching for new ideas.

Rio Ferdinand

For me, the biggest idiot will always be John Terry,

Tim Robbins

There is no question that [Dan] Quayle is an uneducated idiot. But someone, somewhere cleverly realized that the best diversion from Bush is to put on a clown show.

Tim Allen

For years, I just did not like this idea of God, church.

Tiger Woods

I like the idea of being a role model. It's an honor.

Steven Wright

Good jokes are gems. A good idea is hard to come by. I couldn't give them to someone else, even for money. It just wouldn't seem right.

Steven Sater

When I started to make music at the end of the '90s, I saw myself highly influenced by hip-hop and techno, but I wanted to apply these ideas to something from the local sound; something that had identity, that would say who we were and where we came from.

Steven Soderbergh

There are people who are originals and the stuff they make really is new. It isn't based on anything else. But I've decided I'm not that-I was never that. My abilities are to synthesize a wide range of references and ideas into something that feels relatively unified and coherent.

Steven Soderbergh

I tend to be drawn more to people than pure story ideas.

Steven Soderbergh

Sometimes I might feel like [a movie] is kind of a weird idea and if I'm going to get enough money to execute it properly I've got to get somebody in it that is going to justify the expense.