Quotes about id
ideas intellectual signals
The intellectual is engage-he is pledged, committed, enlisted. What everyone else is willing to admit, namely that ideas and abstractions are of signal importance in human life, he imperatively feels. Richard Hofstadter
ideas heaven soul
I can’t remember who said it, but a soul and a heaven must exist because good people aren’t rewarded enough on Earth. I always liked that idea, if that makes sense. Robert Pattinson
ideas want sometimes
I have very, very specific ideas about how I want to do my work and how I want to be perceived and to the point of ridiculousness sometimes.
idaho people three
I might go to some tiny little town in Idaho with, like, three people living there.
ideals incapable manliness
My ideal of manliness is to be incapable of doing anything
ideas mind might
If your mind is truly, profoundly stuck, then it might be much better off than when it was loaded with ideas Robert M. Pirsig
ideas ethics virtue
How are you going to teach virtue if you teach the relativity of all ethical ideas? Virtue, if it implies anything at all, implies an ethical absolute. A person whose idea of what is proper varies from day to day can be admired for his broadmindedness, but not for his virtue.
ideas people lighthouse
For me, a writer should be more like a lighthouse keeper, just out there by himself. He shouldn't get his ideas from other people all around him.
ideas ifs
If you don't generalize you don't philosophize.
ideas needs currents
I have been a lifelong Democrat. Like all ideas, though, the Democrat ideas need to be dynamic. It needs to be kept current.
ideas people may
There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may. Robert Louis Stevenson
ideas together ingredients
When I see the first dailies on any movie, I usually feel that I had no idea how this combination of ingredients was going to mix together, what it was going to produce. Wes Anderson
ideas trying want
If somebody asks me about the themes of something I'm working on, I never have any idea what the themes are. . . . Somebody tells me the themes later. I sort of try to avoid developing themes. I want to just keep it a little bit more abstract. But then, what ends up happening is, they say, 'Well, I see a lot here that you did before, and it's connected to this other movie you did,' and . . . that almost seems like something I don't quite choose. It chooses me.
ideas different kind
Anytime I make a movie, I really have absolutely no idea how it's going to go over. I've had the whole range of different kinds of reactions.
ideas discovery humanity
We have always tried to be guided by the basic idea that, in the discovery of knowledge, there is great entertainment - as, conversely, in all good entertainment, there is always some grain of wisdom, humanity, or enlightenment to be gained. Walt Disney
ideas worry may
Money-or rather the lack of it to carry out my ideas-may worry me, but it does not excite me.
ideas years today
Well it took many years. I started with many ideas, threw them away, started all over again. And eventually it evolved into what you see today at Disneyland
ideas worry incarnation
Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. Vissarion Belinsky
ideas scripture progressive
But, when Scripture makes a clear distinction between the act of creation and the process of preservation, we cannot accept the idea of a progressive creation process. Walter Lang
idols society looks
The smashing of idols is in itself such a preoccupation that it is almost impossible for the iconoclast to look clearly into a future when there will not be many idols left to smash. Walter Lippmann
idols makers
It is better to catch the idol-maker than to smash each idol.
ideas justice littles
True opinions can prevail only if the facts to which they refer are known; if they are not known, false ideas are just as effective as true ones, if not a little more effective.
ideas creative insecurity
Creative ideas come to the intuitive person who can face up to the insecurity of looking beyond the obvious.
ideas idols fruit
Whenever we accept an idea as authority instead of as instrument, an idol is set up. We worship the plough, and not the fruit.
ideas furniture eternity
Unless our ideas are questioned, they become part of the furniture of eternity.
idols feet hands
The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed. Voltaire
ideas wonderful sensations
We are astonished at thought, but sensation is equally wonderful.
ideas stomach spite
Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.
ideas new-ideas
Too often new ideas are studied and analyzed until they are suffocated. William Pollard
ideas track people
You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold. William Hurt
ideas migration facts
Spirit can go anywhere. In fact, it has to go places so it can change and emerge like in the migrations. That's the whole idea. William Least Heat-Moon
ideas facts persons
We never love anyone. Not really. We only love our idea of another person. It is some conception of our own that we love. We love ourselves, in fact. William Boyd
ideas stories needs
Longfellow has his popularity, in the main, because he tells his story or his idea so that one needs nothing but his verses to understand it. William Butler Yeats