Quotes about id
ideas experience observation
We cannot see anything until we are possessed with the idea of it, take it into our heads,--and then we can hardly see anything else. Henry David Thoreau
ideas sides aspect
The front aspect of great thoughts can only be enjoyed by those who stand on the side whence they arrive. Henry David Thoreau
ideas might information
A journal is a repository for all those fragmentary ideas and odd scraps of information that might otherwise be lost and which some day might lead to more "harmonious compositions." Henry David Thoreau
ideas doe difficult
We find it difficult to choose our direction because it does not yet exist distinctly in our idea. Henry David Thoreau
ideas race original-thought
My guess is that well over eighty per cent. of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.. H. L. Mencken
ideas people made
I could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me. Jean Genet
ideas hatred needs
What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born. Jean Genet
identity asking dare
We are reduced to asking others what we are. We never dare to ask ourselves. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
ideas people innovation
People like the idea of innovation in the abstract, but when you present them with any specific innovation, they tend to reject it because it doesn't fit with what they already know. Jessica Livingston
ideas trying too-much
My idea of beauty is somebody that doesn't have to try too much, someone who is effortless and fresh. Jessica Ennis
ideas generosity selfishness
This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural. Jessica Lange
ideas people volatility
Volatility is a symptom that people have no idea of the underlying value Jeremy Grantham
ideas independence accessories
The word "independence" is united to the accessory ideas of dignity and virtue. The word "dependence" is united to the ideas of inferiority and corruption. Jeremy Bentham
ideas vision nuggets
What I'm identifying with is the vision or the idea - whatever was the little nugget that started it. Esperanza Spalding
ideas delay resistance
The more in vibrational sync you are with who you really are, then the more you are allowing only those things that you're wanting, and the less resistance there is. And the less resistance there is, then the less delay between the idea of the thought and the receiving of it. Esther Hicks
ideas worry missing
I worry that I'll go down to the dock, and that my ship will have already come and gone. I'll miss my boat." And we say, another boat, another boat, another boat. You have no idea how many boats are coming to your dock. It's a steady stream, and it doesn't matter how many of them you've missed. Esther Hicks
ideas perspective desire
You're not ever going to get it done. Every time you evaluate contrast and conclude and then line up your Energy and allow it into your experience... at the same time you are achieving the result that you intended, you also achieve a new perspective from which to intend. You can't stand still. In every moment, there is a whole new set of stuff... new ideas, new desires being born. Esther Hicks
ideas stories sometimes
Sometimes you know the story. Sometimes you make it up as you go along and have no idea how it will come out. Ernest Hemingway
ideas flames funny-sarcastic
When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea. Ernest Hemingway
ideas government fundamentals
Even more fundamental than housing to the global financial economy is the idea that the U.S. government is a safe asset. Ezra Klein
ideas done impossible
The peril of the hour moved the British to tremendous exertions, just as always in a moment of extreme danger things can be done which had previously been thought impossible. Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas. Erwin Rommel
ideas danger fixed
Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas. Erwin Rommel
ideas typical form
The Northern idea of form is more of a process. The various units of the form overlap. You can't tell where some things stop and new things start. This is typical of Sibelius. Esa-Pekka Salonen
ideas jumping watches
As we watch TV or films, there are no organic transitions, only edits. The idea of A becoming B, rather than A jumping to B, has become foreign. Esa-Pekka Salonen
ideas house trying
Every orchestra I know, every opera house I know, is desperately looking around trying to find new talent, new composing talent, supporting young composers, supporting new ideas, supporting new ways of getting the message across. Esa-Pekka Salonen
ideas stravinsky debussy
I had no idea Stravinsky disliked Debussy so much as this. Ernest Newman
ideas blanket electric
My idea of 'roughing it' is when you have to have an extension for your electric blanket. Erma Bombeck
ideas rooms spring-cleaning
My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance. Erma Bombeck
ideas trends driven
I like the idea of not looking at trends, not being driven by them. I like what I like and that's it. Erin Wasson
ideas bird
I like the idea of taking off like a bird. Florence Welch
ideas who-you-are
The idea's the idea: It's about what you do, and not who you are. FKA twigs
ideas people feelings
The idea of being a writer attracts a good many shiftless people, those who are merely burdened with poetic feelings or afflicted with sensibility. Flannery O'Connor
ideas speaking-up shy
I've learned the importance of speaking up for myself and voicing my opinions and my ideas. I'm definitely a shy person. Fiona Gubelmann