Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Scott

Have you any idea how to wake a hibernating Elder?” Machiavelli shook his head. “Mars, what about you? Any advice?” “Yes. Don’t.

Michael Scott

The idea of selling a Cezanne to buy a Morisot seems explosively contentious.

Michael Scott

Good collaboration essentially boils down to personalities who work well together and are able to integrate each other's notes and ideas without killing each other.

Michael Moore

My films don't have instant impact because they're dense with ideas that people have not thought about. It takes a while for the American public to wrap its head around some of the things I'm saying.

Michael Moore

The money to fund great things and innovations and programs is gone in our lifetime; it's all gone to debt. So we won't be able to solve global warming or have the transportation that we needed for the 21st century. We should be supporting people with great ideas, but it's gone, and now it's gotta be paid back with interest to banks in China.

Michael Moore

Under Reagan came the idea of putting your pension plan in the stock market, which wasn't a guaranteed pension.

Michael Moore

The idea that cinema can be dangerous is a great idea.

Thaksin Shinawatra

I am never one to disappoint. When I decided to invest I decided to bring the club forward. I am ready bring new ideas, vision and investment to the club.

Terry Pratchett

The phrase "may you live in interesting times" is the lowest in a trilogy of Chinese curses that continue "may you come to the attention of those in authority" and finish with "may the gods give you everything you ask for." I have no idea about its authenticity.

Terry Pratchett

Noble dragons don't have friends. The nearest they can get to the idea is an enemy who is still alive.

Terry Pratchett

It's vital to remember who you really are. It's very important. It isn't a good idea to rely on other people or things to do it for you, you see. They always get it wrong.

Terry Pratchett

A witch who is bored might do ANYTHING. People said things like 'we had to make our own amusements in those days' as if this signified some kind of moral worth, and perhaps it did, but the last thing you wanted a witch to do was get bored and start making her own amusements, because witches sometimes had famously erratic ideas about what was amusing.

Margaret Sanger

Many people are horrified at the idea of birth control. . . . It is simply the keynote of a new moral program.

Margaret Heffernan

Companies don't have ideas. Only people do.

Margaret Heffernan

Most people have their best ideas when they take their minds away from problems they're trying to solve.

Margaret Heffernan

For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.

Margaret Halsey

this year's blasphemy is next year's liberating truth ...

Margaret J. Wheatley

Life now insists that we encounter groundlessness. Systems and ideas that seemed reliable and solid dissolve at an increasing rate. People who asked for our trust betray or abandon us. Strategies that worked suddenly don't. Groundlessness is a frightening place, at least at first, but as the old culture turns to mush, we would feel stronger if we stopped searching for ground, if we sought only to locate ourselves in the present and do our work from here.

Marcus Brigstocke

I stumbled on a joke idea and style that worked, the audience went with it and, from that moment on, I was hooked. It's an amazing feeling.

Marcus Buckingham

No idea will work if people don't trust your intentions toward them.

Kevin Systrom

If you've got an idea, start today. There's no better time than now to get going.

Michael Fassbender

[As an actor] I have ideas, but things should always be fluid. You should always be ready to follow an instinct. Something might reveal itself on the day.

Michael Fassbender

I love to go into a movie and have no idea what's going to happen in it.

Michael Bell

The more ideas one is free to explore, the more likely a truly creative idea can emerge.

Michael Behe

I find the idea of common descent (that all organisms share a common ancestor) fairly convincing, and have no particular reason to doubt it.

Michael Bloomberg

There is no accountability today... no willingness to focus on big ideas.

Michael Bloomberg

Entrepreneurship is having an idea to do something great and not entirely have a plan on how to do it but the drive and will power to make it work

Melissa Rosenberg

Directing doesn't appeal to me. I'm much more in the world of ideas.

Melinda Gates

Human-centered design. Meeting people where they are and really taking their needs and feedback into account. When you let people participate in the design process, you find that they often have ingenious ideas about what would really help them. And it’s not a onetime thing; it’s an iterative process.

Melissa Marr

Discord says it's a good idea. That's comforting.

Michelangelo

The idea is there locked inside. All you have to do is remove the excess stone.

Michael Ignatieff

Cynics who say power is all that counts in politics forget that power without ideas is just improvisation.

Michael Ignatieff

An intellectual may be interested in ideas and policies for their own sake, but a politician's interest is exclusively in the question of whether an idea's time has come,