Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Stoppard

I'm not one of those writers who insist they don't read reviews and don't care much about them. I do read them, and I do care about them, and they're not always what you want them to be in an ideal world.

Timothy Noah

With so much to be aware of, awareness bracelets have reverted to signifying nothing more than color itself. Idealism has devolved into fashion.

Art Linkletter

Yes, I backed the hula hoop. And I had a lot of other people come to me with ideas that turned out well

Ayn Rand

That which exists possesses identity; he could keep it out of existence by refusing to identify it.

Ayn Rand

Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification.

Ayn Rand

Ideas are the greatest and most crucially practical power on earth.

Ayn Rand

I am an innovator. This is a term of distinction, a term of honor, rather than something to hide or apologize for. Anyone who has new or valuable ideas to offer stands outside the intellectual status quo. But the status quo is not a stream, let alone a 'mainstream'. It is a stagnant swamp. It is the innovators who carry mankind forward.

Ayn Rand

Ideas, in a free society, are not a crime- and neither can they serve as the justification of a crime.

Audie Murphy

It's not easy to shed the idea that human life is sacred.

Bertrand Russell

This idea of weapons of mass extermination is utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate.

Bertrand Russell

There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.

Bertrand Russell

Every great idea starts out as a blasphemy.

Benito Mussolini

I should be pleased, I suppose, that Hitler has carried out a revolution on our lines. But they are Germans. So they will end by ruining our idea.

Benjamin Disraeli

My idea of an acceptable person is someone that is ready to accept my ideas.

Ben Goldacre

There is this peculiar blind spot in the culture of academic medicine around whether withholding trial results is research misconduct. People who work in any industry can reinforce each others' ideas about what is okay.

Carl von Clausewitz

Architects and painters know precisely what they are about as long as they deal with material phenomena.... But when they come to the aesthetics of their work, when they aim at a particular effect on the mind or on the senses, the rules dissolve into nothing but vague ideas.

Cara Castronuova

Even though I had been boxing, I had no idea I could beat somebody in the ring. And I had no idea I could really take a punch. When I realized that, I really started taking off.

Carine Roitfeld

Maybe people have no idea how much work is behind a picture. It can seem very effortless but there is a lot of work. It’s exactly like doing ballet. It’s hours and hours but when you go onstage it’s just the pleasure of dancing.

Carine Roitfeld

In photo shoots, I rely on instinct. Which is not to say I don't bring ideas to a project or consider it beforehand.

Carine Roitfeld

What I hope I would do is something new, but I still love print. I love to touch paper. I'm not sure if I will ever do a magazine again, but I have plenty of ideas on the subject.

Cameron Russell

I have no idea what advantages I truly get, but I know people talk to me and give me time of day because they like how I look.

It doesn't matter if you have the greatest product in the world if no one will buy it. Have an idea of where your customers will come from and how to get to them. Partner with blogs and magazines that target that audience. If you partner with them, hopefully you won't have to spend money on advertising.

When I have an idea, I share it with everyone. People say someone will steal my idea, but it's not like I invented something that will replace the toilet. I tell people to get their feedback. Will they buy it, help me improve it, or tell me it's already been done? If someone else is excited, he or she might buy into the business.

Cameron Sinclair

When your focus is social change and not financial change why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared. If you're a pioneer and you come up with something that can change the world and you turn round and say 'I'm not going to share this idea with anyone' then you only impact the few and not the many.

C. S. Lewis

I want God, not my idea of God.

C. S. Lewis

That part of Rostrevor which overlooks Carlingford Lough is my idea of Narnia.

C. S. Lewis

The most dangerous ideas in a society are not the ones being argued, but the ones that are assumed.

C. S. Lewis

A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.

Fred Couples

We've talked about playing with Tiger, which would be an ideal thing for me,

Bryant H. McGill

Materialism is an identity crisis.

Bryant H. McGill

No belief or idea is sacred, unless it treats all people as sacred.

Bryant H. McGill

If you cannot be open-minded, then you do not possess your ideas, your ideas possess you.

Cesar Millan

I'm open for possibilities. I'm open for choices. I always welcome new ideas. I'm always eager to learn. I'm never going to close my mind from learning.