Famous Quotes & Sayings

Terence McKenna

No one yet understands the mysterious intelligence within plants or the implications of the idea that nature communicates in a basic chemical language that is unconscious but profound. We do not yet understand how hallucinogens transform the message in the unconscious into revelations beheld by the conscious mind.

Terence McKenna

What foods are, essentially, are idea-neutral drugs.

Terence McKenna

My idea of enlightenment is when ego and Tao are fused, and Tao is perceived as ego. Then everything happens with complete appropriateness.

Tom Rath

Every day, I read about new ideas and research that could help someone I care about live a longer and healthier life.

Tom Petty

I've never had any idea that what I like would resonate with the audience, and I'm pleasantly surprised when it does.

Simone Weil

Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.

Simone Weil

The essential characteristic of the first half of the twentieth century is the growing weakness, and almost the disappearance, of the idea of value.

Simon Sinek

It's ok if others share our ideas as long as they build upon them. It's called progress.

Simon Sinek

If you want to achieve anything in this world, you have to get used to the idea that not everyone will like you.

Simon Sinek

What good is an idea if it remains an idea? Try. Experiment. Iterate. Fail. Try again. Change the world.

Simon Sinek

The next time someone starts listing all the reasons an idea won't work or can't happen, ask them to give 3 reasons it can.

Simon Sinek

The best ideas are the honest ones. Ones born out of personal experience. Ones that originated to help a few but ended up helping many.

Simon Sinek

We should invest in people not ideas. A good idea is often destroyed by bad people and good people can always make a bad idea better.

Simon Sinek

Genius is in the idea. Impact, however, comes from action!

Simon McBurney

I suppose as an actor you become very sensitive to rhythm, not just rhythm as you look at it sort of from the, from the outside as a director might see it, but within yourself you become used to the idea of hearing your fellow actors, responding to them in space.

Simon Pegg

The only thing that would deter me at the moment would be the idea of doing one thing for a very long time. There is no doubt in my mind that television is an incredibly auspicious medium right now. It's where a lot of the serious acting is taking place.

Simon Pegg

This idea of popular culture became something that belonged to us rather than something that we looked at from far away. We realized we could be part of it and create it, instead of just being consumers only.

Rick Riordan

Leo had wanted to paint a giant message on the bottom of the hull-WASSUP? with a smiley-face-but Annabeth had vetoed the idea.

Richard Branson

What is a business? It's simply an idea that makes someone else's life better

Richard Branson

Perhaps, therefore, it is odd that if there is any one phrase that is guaranteed to set me off it's when someone says to me, 'OK, fine. You're the boss!' What irks me is that in 90% of such instances what that person is really saying is, 'OK, then, I don't agree with you, but I'll roll over and do it because you're telling me to. But if it doesn't work out I'll be the first to remind everyone that it wasn't my idea.'

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.

Stephen Fry

It does not suit the world to hear that people who are leading a high life, an enviable life, a privileged life are as miserable most days as anybody else, despite the fact that it must be obvious they would be - given that we are all agreed that money and fame do not bring happiness. Instead the world would prefer to enjoy the idea, against what it knows to be true, that wealth and fame do in fact insulate and protect against misery and it would rather we shut up if we are planning to indicate otherwise.