Quotes about ideas
ideas people littles
Being around blind people is always a little frustrating to me because I know they have no idea how handsome I am. Zach Braff
ideas right-ideas
Hitler had the right idea. He was just an underachiever. Zach Braff
ideas america people
I was confident about America and the idea that in America people can become American without masking their ethnic identity. Zbigniew Brzezinski
ideas starting-over leaving
I always liked the story of Noah's Ark and the idea of starting anew by rescuing the things you like and leaving the rest behind. Zach Braff
ideas important shapes
Students often have such a lofty idea of what a poem is, and I want them to realize that their own lives are where the poetry comes from. The most important things are to respect the language; to know the classical rules, even if only to break them; and to be prepared to edit, to revise, to shape. Yusef Komunyakaa
ideas sake messages
Music in Africa often contains messages. Music in Senegal, and Africa, is never music for music's sake or solely for entertainment. It's always a vehicle for social connections, discussions and ideas. Youssou N'Dour
ideas giving atmosphere
Language, if it throws a veil over our ideas, adds a softness and refinement to them, like that which the atmosphere gives to naked objects. William Hazlitt
ideas way made
To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it. William Hazlitt
ideas income economy
The idea of abolishing Income Tax is to me highly attractive, both on other grounds & because it tends to public economy. William E. Gladstone
ideas giving care
Akin to the idea that time is money is the concept, less spoken but as commonly assumed, that we may be adequately represented by money. The giving of money has thus become our characteristic virtue. But to give is not to do. The money is given in lieu of action, thought, care, time. Wendell Berry
ideas numbers common-sense
The reformer is careless of numbers, disregards popularity, and deals only with ideas, conscience, and common sense. He feels, with Copernicus, that as God waited long for an interpreter, so he can wait for his followers. Wendell Phillips
ideas gossip mind
The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business. Wendell Phillips
ideas kind good-work
The old and honorable idea of 'vocation' is simply that we each are called, by God, or by our gifts, or by our preference, to a kind of good work for which we are particularly fitted. Wendell Berry
ideas superstitious
What could be more superstitious than the idea that money brings forth food? Wendell Berry
ideas two perfection
There are two kinds of filmmaking: Hitchcock's (the film is complete in the director's mind) and Coppola's (which thrives on process). For Hitchcock, any variation from the complete internal idea is seen as a defect. The perfection already exists. Coppola's approach is to harvest the random elements that the process throws up, things that were not in his mind when he began. Walter Murch
ideas people romance
The biggest misconception that people have about the literary life is the romance of it. That a writer has this large world available to him or her of people, of ideas, of experiences, of interchange of ideas. Walter Mosley
ideas certain companion
She had certain thoughts which were like companions, ideas which were like older and wiser friends. Willa Cather
ideas shapes movie-star
Just stay ready. Stay in shape and then you don't have to rush to train before the movie starts. I'll show you my abs later because I’m in shape. But that idea, if you stay ready, you don’t have to get ready. Will Smith
ideas long people
There's one hole in every revolution, large or small. And it's one word long— PEOPLE. No matter how big the idea they all stand under, people are small and weak and cheap and frightened. It's people that kill every revolution. Warren Ellis
ideas people causes
Working with people who cause your stomach to churn seems much like marrying for money - probably a bad idea under any circumstances, but absolute madness if you are already rich. Warren Buffett
ideas mirrors decision
My idea of a group decision is to look in the mirror. Warren Buffett
ideas important timing
I have no idea on timing. It’s easier to tell what will happen than when it will happen. I would say that what is going on in terms of trade policy is going to have very important consequences. Warren Buffett
ideas rocks forever
What changed our lives forever was when Malcolm had the idea to sell rock 'n roll records to trendy customers. Vivienne Westwood
ideas intellectual world
The whole basis of my work is analysing what I do and building some sort of intellectual framework. The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas. They are the only subversion. Vivienne Westwood
ideas world effects
The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas. Vivienne Westwood
ideas people needs
Sometimes you need to transport your idea to an empty landscape and then populate it with fantastic looking people. Vivienne Westwood
ideas goal shapes
But what's your ultimate goal, you'll say. That goal will become clearer, will take shape slowly and surely, as the croquis becomes a sketch and the sketch a painting, as one works more seriously, as one digs deeper into the originally vague idea, the first fugitive, passing thought, unless it becomes firm. Vincent Van Gogh
ideas painting abundance
Ideas for work are coming to me in abundance...I'm going like a painting-locomotive. Vincent Van Gogh
ideas sunflower dozen
I'm now painting with all the elan of a Marseillais eating soup, which won't surprise you when I tell you I'm painting large sunflowers. The idea? To decorate the studio, now there's hope of Gauguin living here. I aim at a dozen panels of sunflowers in the room I've set aside for Gauguin.... Vincent Van Gogh
ideas peculiar expected
The Bolshevik slogans and ideas on the whole have been confirmed by history; but concretely things have worked out differently; they are more original, more peculiar, more varied than anyone could have expected. Vladimir Lenin
ideas mind recognition
Materialism is the recognition of "objects in themselves", or outside the mind; ideas and sensations are copies of images of those objects. Vladimir Lenin
ideas nonfiction
I often read nonfiction, and some of my ideas begin there.
ideas ego who-you-are
Ego is simply an idea of who you are that you carry around with you. Wayne Dyer