Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sylvia Plath

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

Swami Vivekananda

This is the one great idea to understand that our power is already ours, our salvation is already within us.

Swami Vivekananda

To realize the spirit as spirit is practical religion. Everything else is good so far as it leads to this one grand idea.

Swami Vivekananda

Get rid of the bondage of body; we have become slaves to it and learnt to hug our chains and love our slavery; so much so that we long to perpetuate it, and go on with "body" "body" for ever. Do not cling to the idea of "body", do not look for a future existence in any way like this one; do not love or want the body, even of those dear to us.

Swami Vivekananda

It is the witness alone that can work without any desire, without any idea of going to heaven, without any idea of blame, without any idea of praise. The witness alone enjoys, and none else.

Swami Vivekananda

Out of this idea of separation between atom and atom comes all misery.

Swami Vivekananda

You and I and everything in the universe are that Absolute, not parts, but the whole. You are the whole of that Absolute, and so are all others, because the idea of part cannot come into it.

Swami Vivekananda

Every idea has to become broad till it covers the whole of this world, every aspiration must go on increasing till it has engulfed the whole of humanity, nay, the whole of life, within its scope.

Swami Vivekananda

Always remember that renunciation is the root idea. Unless one is initiated into this idea, not even Brahma and the World - gods have the power to attain Mukti

Swami Vivekananda

I have long given up the idea of a little house on the Ganges, as I have not the money.

Swami Vivekananda

The idea of God grew side by side with the idea of materialism.

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

If you ever have a new idea, and it's really new, you have to expect that it won't be widely accepted immediately. It's a long hard process.

Rosanne Cash

I wanted to be the writer in the room setting depth charges of feeling out the world with my language.You know, I had a very romantic idea about that.But I grew into being a performer.

Ron Suskind

The key is to put your outrage in a place where you can get it when you need to, but not have it bubble up so much, especially when you're asked to explain new ideas or explain what you observed two people who share none of your experiences.

Ron Wyden

The idea of a federal betting parlor on atrocities and terrorism is ridiculous and it's grotesque.

Ron White

I was so in love with the idea of making people laugh for a living that I didn't care what I had to do to get there. Or how much money I was going to make when I did get there.

Rollo May

The insight is born with anxiety, guilt and the joy and gratification that is inseparable from the actualizing of a new idea or vision.

Samantha Mathis

There's always that feeling of 'Oh, God! One day they'll find out that I really have no idea what I'm doing.

Samantha Shannon

I'm often daydreaming, and it's because I've always liked the idea of there being something more than the normal world.

Tom Peters

An ability to embrace new ideas, routinely challenge old ones, and live with paradox will be the effective leader's premier trait.

Tom Peters

The idea of intimately entwining with customers [to get ideas] is an idea whose time has come.

Tom Peters

Listen to Everyone. Ideas come from everywhere

Tom Peters

The new idea either finds a champion or it dies. No ordinary involvement with a new idea provides the energy required to cope with the indifference and resistance that change provokes.

Tom Peters

Change is not so much about being the first one to embrace a new idea, but being the first to forget an old one

Tom Peters

The greatest difficulty in the world is not for people to accept new ideas, but to make them forget old ideas.

Tom Robbins

Those same forces that drive a genius to create the things or ideas that entertain or enlighten us often gobble so much of his personality that he has none left for the social graces.

Tom Robbins

what bothers me today is the lack of, well, i guess you'd call it authentic experience. so much is a sham. so much is artificial, synthetic, watered-down, and standardized...we're standardizing people, their goals, their ideas. the sham is everywhere.

Tom Robbins

Cultural institutions by and large share one primary objective: herd control. Even when ostensibly benign, their propensity for manipulation, compartmentalization, standardization and suppression of potentially disruptive behavior or ideas, has served to freeze the evolution of consciousness practically in its tracks.

Tom Kite

But Id say that probably 70 percent of the bunkering is more to give you an idea of the direction that you want to go or to save your ball from going into worse places.

Tom Freston

We, as Americans, have so much to learn here. We have a shockingly low level of global awareness and familiarity and little idea of how the world sees us. And those disturbing facts keep getting us into a lot of trouble.

Tom G. Palmer

Most Europeans have no idea how wild life can be in north America.

Tom Araya

Venom was a band that strongly influenced the image and the idea behind Slayer

Tom Baker

We are pre-disposed for fantasy, there is a natural impulse for human beings to want to get off their heads or out of their heads in something in a substance or a drink or an idea or a religion which will comfort them and make life exciting.