Quotes about ideas
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?
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 groups interest
A philistine is a full-grown person whose interests are of a material and commonplace nature, and whose mentality is formed of the stock ideas and conventional ideals of his or her group and time. Vladimir Nabokov
ideas lucky fans
I'm open to sci-fi, but I was never a diehard fan. I have no idea why it keeps following me. I'm extremely lucky, I guess; it's a lucrative venue. Yancy Butler
ideas dying why-not
Dying for an idea,' again, sounds well enough, but why not let the idea die instead of you? Wyndham Lewis
ideas clothes arbitrary
The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is seldom explicit.
ideas leader criticism
The Pope was more critical of Christianity than Islam during his visit (to Bavaria). He said on several occasions that the secular world influenced by Christianity must face the idea that it may not be as attractive as it once was. The leaders of other faiths might also be well-advised to admonish their own now and then and not always direct their criticism at others. Wolfgang Schauble
ideas together biscuits
The Robertson family and bad ideas go together like biscuits and jam. Willie Robertson
ideas
Fear of ideas makes us impotent and ineffective. William O. Douglas
ideas way combat
The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.
ideas mind vision
I have a flood of ideas in my mind. I just follow my vision. Yayoi Kusama
ideas information fresh-ideas
New information makes new and fresh ideas possible. Zig Ziglar
ideas people want
Far too many people have no idea of what they can do because all they have been told is what they can't do. They don't know what they want because they don't know what's available for them.
ideas america puritan
We are very puritan in America. We still hold true to these really antiquated values, this idea of the sanctity of marriage. Zoe Lister-Jones
ideas balance living-my-life
I always strive to keep a balance with my fears. I don't like to be ruled by them. At the same time, I don't like the idea of living my life totally free of any fears. I like having that moderation. Zoe Saldana
ideas people
Maybe other people's ideas of us are truer than our own. Zelda Fitzgerald
ideas two people
It's got two aspects. The bit that involves the public life I could not really tolerate and cannot really tolerate. I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. Zadie Smith
ideas worry nostalgic
I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.