Quotes about ideas
ideas way actors
Actors have to protect each other in a way. The idea of humiliating another actor or being humiliated myself is devastating. Nicole Kidman
ideas sun done
No idea is original, there's nothing new under the sun, it's never what you do, but how it's done Nas
ideas fixing dose
Anything organic requires some dose of variability so it can adapt all the time, and fixing things is not a good idea. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
ideas interesting scared
An idea starts to be interesting when you get scared of taking it to its logical conclusion.
ideas stories black-swan
Ideas come and go, stories stay.
ideas greek arrogance
I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.
ideas rare-events swans
The central idea in The Black Swan is that: rare events cannot be estimated from empirical observation since they are rare.
ideas facts enthusiasm
One of the reasons we do history, in fact, is because it acts as a brake, a control, on our otherwise unbridled enthusiasm for our own ideas. N. T. Wright
ideas people way
I'll find places to grab as I walk and talk, sometimes even walking backwards because I have more control that way. People have no idea that I'm doing this. Montel Williams
ideas would-be persona
I have no idea what my persona would be. As far as I'm concerned, I'm changing all the time. Miranda Richardson
ideas people firsts
Ever since I first used a computer in the early '80s, I've thought of it as a fundamentally new medium for the dissemination of ideas which can transform people's lives and the society we live in. Mike McCue
ideas pieces inanimate-objects
I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life. Mike Mills
ideas literature matter
No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves. Mignon McLaughlin
ideas bullshit singing
I really like Howler and an American band on Sub Pop called Jaill. There will always be new bands that I like, it's always been that way. I still go out to shows. One thing I don't like now is this idea that all singing needs to be expressed at maximum volume with so much bullshit sentimentality - it's pervading regular pop music. Johnny Marr
ideas listening pants
You get ideas across better through listening and the pat-on-the-back method than you do with a kick on the pants. John Wooden
ideas way literature
Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them. John Ruskin
ideas roots astrology
As in the instances of alchemy, astrology, witchcraft, and other such popular creeds, political economy, has a plausible idea at the root of it.
ideas brilliant wanted
We wanted to be as expansive as possible to make sure we didn't preclude some good ideas. John Poindexter
ideas tyrants cosmic
Whitehead reacted strongly against the idea of God as a cosmic tyrant, one who brings about everything. John Polkinghorne
ideas world today
For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry. Matthew Arnold
ideas world illusion
For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
ideas profound noble
Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
ideas people helping
Not only is it a great concept and a great idea -- helping people -- it's good pizza too! Matt Lauer
ideas issues long
One of the great cliches of campaign journalism is the notion that American elections have long since ceased to be about issues and ideas. Matt Taibbi
ideas rights hypocrisy
People are beginning to become disturbingly comfortable with a kind of official hypocrisy. Bizarrely, for instance, we've become numb to the idea that rights aren't absolute but are enjoyed on a kind of sliding scale.
ideas dry might
For me, a novel relying too heavily on a single idea might be a dry, deadly thing unless it possesses an animating force. Meg Wolitzer
ideas despair littles
At the time, I didn't have the insight to wonder at the transient nature of despair, but now that I'm older I've seen how little it takes to turn a person's life around for better or worse. An event will do, or an Idea. Another person. An idea of a person. Meg Rosoff
ideas atheism popular-song
Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular. Maximilien Robespierre
ideas ephemeral definitions
The images of peace are ephemeral. The language of peace is subtle. The reasons for peace, the definitions of peace, the very idea of peace have to be invented, and invented again Maxine Hong Kingston
ideas feelings negative
Your present negative beliefs were formed by thought PLUS feelings. Generate enough emotion, or deep feeling and your new thoughts and ideas will cancel them out. Maxwell Maltz
ideas mind negative
It is no exaggeration to say that every human being is hypnotized to some extent either by ideas he has uncritically accepted from others or ideas he has repeated to himself or convinced himself are true. These negative ideas have exactly the same effect upon our behavior as the negative ideas implanted into the mind of a hypnotized subject by a professional hypnotist.
ideas feelings humanity
God is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism. Maxim Gorky
ideas doctors feelings
The illness of a doctor is always worse than the illnesses of his patients.The patients only feel, but the doctor, as well as feeling, has a pretty good idea of the destructive effect of the disease on his constitution.This is a case in which knowledge brings death nearer.