Quotes about ideas
ideas feelings care
When an introvert cares about someone, she also wants contact, not so much to keep up with the events of the other person's life, but to keep up with what's inside: the evolution of ideas, values, thoughts, and feelings. Laurie Helgoe
ideas electricity
A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire. Laurie Anderson
ideas alive individual
An individual is as alive as he has ideas. He's as aware as he has ideas. L. Ron Hubbard
ideas america issues
In America, there seems to be more focus on the idea that it's important to do things differently. In Britain, it's not an issue. Thom Yorke
ideas laughing littles
Chicken Little change my life when I was younger. I had no idea chickens could talk *laughs*. Thom Yorke
ideas talking body
I have no idea what I am talking about I'm trapped in this body and can't get out Thom Yorke
ideas bigs big-ideas
Don't get any big ideas, They're not gonna happen. Thom Yorke
ideas looks masculine
An idea that is confident always looks masculine. Thom Browne
ideas paradise obsessed
I'm obsessed by the idea of making my mark on history. And Arsenal is my paradise. Thierry Henry
ideas people shining
Trying to do good to people without God's help is no easier than making the sun shine at midnight. You discover that you've got to abandon all your own preferences, your own bright ideas, and guide souls along the road our Lord has marked out for them. You mustn't coerce them into some path of your own choosing. Therese of Lisieux
ideas calendars might
The calendar of the Theocracy of Muntab counts down, not up. No-one knows why, but it might not be a good idea to hang around and find out. Terry Pratchett
ideas democracy discworld
I like the idea of democracy. You have to have someone everyone distrusts, Terry Pratchett
ideas stories use
The whole point of animation to me is to tell a story, make a joke, express an idea. The technique itself doesn't really matter. Whatever works is the thing to use. Terry Gilliam
ideas psychedelic standing-out
Certainly the central Platonic idea, which is the idea of the ideas, these archetypal forms which stand outside of time is one which is confirmed by the psychedelic experience. Terence McKenna
ideas scorn my-own
I have nothing but scorn for all weird ideas other than my own. Terence McKenna
ideas psychedelic bursting
I finally realized that this 'place' that I kept bursting into [on a psychedelic experience] was somebody's idea of a playpen. Terence McKenna
ideas imagination levels
Everything will come true in cyberspace. That's the whole idea. What cyberspace is, on one level, it's simply the human imagination vivified, hardwired. Terence McKenna
ideas profound mind
No one yet understands the mysterious intelligence within plants or the implications of the idea that nature communicates in a basic chemical language that is unconscious but profound. We do not yet understand how hallucinogens transform the message in the unconscious into revelations beheld by the conscious mind. Terence McKenna
ideas drug
What foods are, essentially, are idea-neutral drugs. Terence McKenna
ideas ego enlightenment
My idea of enlightenment is when ego and Tao are fused, and Tao is perceived as ego. Then everything happens with complete appropriateness. Terence McKenna
ideas space mind
Modernity is a desert, and we are jungle monkeys. And so new evolutionary selective pressures are coming to bear upon the human situation, new ideas are coming to the fore. Psilocybin is a selective filter for this. The wish to go to space is a selective filter for this. Just the wish to know your own mind is a selective filter for this. Terence McKenna
ideas knowing shapes
The shape the words end up taking are themselves the meaning of the words, they are retrospectively what we meant to say. There's no way of knowing this until you register it in visible form. But the other side of this is that you do have some idea of where you are going. Teju Cole
ideas brain matter
Brain damage is never a good idea, no matter what your friends say. Ted Chiang
ideas light thousand
One idea lights a thousand candles. Ralph Waldo Emerson
ideas essence way
General ideas are essences. They are our gods: they round and ennoble the most partial and sordid way of living. Ralph Waldo Emerson
ideas citizens lovers
Let ideas establish their legitimate sway again in society, let life be fair and poetic, and the scholars will gladly be lovers, citizens, and philanthropists. Ralph Waldo Emerson
ideas race lasts
When at last in a race a new principle appears, an idea--that conserves it; ideas only save races. Ralph Waldo Emerson
ideas house ends
The idea of God ends in a paltry Methodist meeting-house. Ralph Waldo Emerson
ideas issues coward
We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents. It may be safely trusted as proportionate and of good issues, so it be faithfully imparted, but God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. Ralph Waldo Emerson
ideas discipline mind
Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold it's great proportions. Ralph Waldo Emerson
ideas prisoner
We are the prisoners of ideas. Ralph Waldo Emerson
ideas property
Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it. Ralph Waldo Emerson
ideas use fit
Thought makes everything fit for use. Ralph Waldo Emerson