Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chang-Rae Lee

For if there is ever a moment when we are most vulnerable, it’s when we’re closest to the idea of the attained desire, and thus farthest from ourselves, which is when we’ll tread through any flame.

Charlie Norwood

There is no question that managed care is managed cost, and the idea is that you can save a lot of money and make health care costs less if you ration it.

Charlie Kaufman

I have ideas written down some places, but usually I can't find them. I'm not very organized.

Charlie Kaufman

I have a tendency to hire people who tend to be unattractive to the studios. Maybe this is a bad idea.

Charlie Kaufman

I do throw out a lot of ideas, and I forget completely about them.

Charlie Kaufman

I wanted to deal with someone's idea of their relationship.

Charlie Munger

It's not the bad ideas that do you in, but the good ones.

Charlie Munger

If you can get good at destroying your own wrong ideas, that is a great gift.

Charlie Munger

My idea of a good place to shop is Costco - it has these heavily marbled fillet steaks. The idea of eating some wheat thing and washing it down with carrot juice has never appealed to me.

Charlie Munger

For some odd reason, I had an early and extreme multidisciplinary cast of mind. I couldn't stand reaching for a small idea in my own discipline when there was a big idea right over the fence in somebody else's discipline. So I just grabbed in all directions for the big ideas that would really work.

Charlie Munger

You have to realize the truth of biologist Julian Huxley's idea that 'Life is just one damn relatedness after another' "So you must have the models, and you must see the relatedness and the effects from the relatedness.

Charlie Munger

It's very useful to have a good grasp of all the big ideas in hard and soft science. A, it gives perspective. B, it gives a way for you to organize and file away experience in your head, so to speak.

Charlie Munger

The idea of excessive diversification is madness. Wide diversification, which necessarily includes investment in mediocre businesses, only guarantees ordinary results.

Charlie Munger

The idea of excessive diversification is madness.

Charlie Munger

You have to have a temperament to grab ideas and do sensible things. Most people don’t grab the right ideas or don’t know what to do with them.

Charlie Munger

An idea or a fact is not worth more merely because it's more available to you.

Charles Sanders Peirce

The consciousness of a general idea has a certain "unity of the ego" in it, which is identical when it passes from one mind to another. It is, therefore, quite analogous to a person, and indeed, a person is only a particular kind of general idea.

Charles Sanders Peirce

A sign, or representamen, is something which stands to somebody for something in some respect or capacity. It addresses somebody,that is, creates in the mind of that person an equivalent sign, or perhaps a more developed sign. That sign which it creates I call the interpretant of the first sign. The sign stands for something, its object. It stands for that object, not in all respects, but in reference to a sort of idea, which I have sometimes called the ground of the representamen.

Charles Sanders Peirce

The idea does not belong to the soul; it is the soul that belongs to the idea.

Charles M. Schwab

I didn't take up shorthand with any idea of becoming a professional at it. It merely appeared to me to be a good thing to know - something that might come in handy.

Charles M. Schwab

I disagreed with Carnegie's ideas on how best to distribute his wealth. I spent mine!

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Ideals we do not make. We discover, not invent, them.

Charles Handy

An economy that adds value through information, ideas, and intelligence-the Three I Economy-offers a way out of the apparent clash between material growth and environmental resources.

Charles Horton Cooley

The social self is simply any idea, or system of ideas, drawn from the communicative life, that the mind cherishes as its own.

Charles Frazier

It is a bad idea to live too long. Few carry it off well.

Binyavanga Wainaina

I like the idea of readers feeling a familiarity, whether its with Africa or childhood.

Birch Bayh

Well, I don't know too many governors who are flaming ideologues.

Bill Laswell

Nothing was a style first. Everything started as an idea. A guy did something with an idea. Someone copied him. Some copied all of them and it became trendy and then it became a style.

Bill McKibben

The Arctic and the Antarctic are melting quickly. We may have waited too long to get started. But this is a day for optimism because the battle is fully joined, and the idea that big oil is unbeatable is no longer true.

Bill Maher

To give you an idea how slowly we are leaving Afghanistan, Afghans don't refer to us anymore as 'infidel crusaders.' They refer to us as 'Irish relatives.'

Louis C. K.

Young people don't even consider that it's a good idea to be out on the fringe, which is where good ideas come from.

Louis C. K.

I don't have a room full of writers pitching ideas. It's just me out of my head.

Kurt Vonnegut

It shook up Trout to realize that even he could bring evil into the world — in the form of bad ideas.