This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking. — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
It's my duty to sell the ideas. But there's always a question when it comes to beauty. — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
Have you any idea what it's like to live under the same roof as four women? Armageddon is the best word for… — Shayne Ward Copy Share Image
Anything is possible - even the most far-fetched idea can come to being through a series of seemingly small decisions and actions. — Kandyse McClure Copy Share Image
There is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur — Bill Drayton Copy Share Image
A man haunted by a fixed idea is insane. He is dangerous even if that idea is the idea of justice. — Ramandeep Singh Copy Share Image
No director wants to be directed, but no good director... would shy away from the good ideas of others. — Tommy Lee Jones Copy Share Image
Socially, I like the idea of sitting in a theater with a bunch of people. — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
I spent twenty years of my life trying to recruit people out of local churches and into missions structures so that they… — George H. Miley Copy Share Image
The more government takes the place of associations, the more will individuals lose the idea of forming associations and need the government… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York… — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
My idea to bridge the world together with music starting in Asia and going to the West is something that is new,… — Swizz Beatz Copy Share Image
I got the idea [for Anthem's theme] in my school days, in Soviet Russia, when I heard all the vicious attacks on… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I reckon I can count on 30 more writing years, averaging a book a year (I can't keep up the 2-2.5 a… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
You used the word "civilization", which means a set of abstractions, symbols, conventions. Experience tends to be vicarious; emotions are predigested and… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
But obviously, we're looking for all good ideas to help deal with our long-term debt problem. This is something that is going… — David Axelrod Copy Share Image
If everything must have a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Today the network of relationships linking the human race to itself and to the rest of the biosphere is so complex that… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
In the mid-1980s, however, the Estonian TV programmers came up with a clever idea: they asked Moscow for millions of rubles to… — Jaak Kilmi Copy Share Image
Where did you find that one?" "I have no idea. I'm a magnet for crazies, I guess." "They must be able to… — Kiersten White Copy Share Image
“The idea of safety had shrunk into particles - one snug moment, then the next. Meanwhile, the brain piped fugues of worry… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Government isn't a good way to solve problems ... [G]overnment is concerned mostly with self-perpetuation and is subject to fantastic ideas about… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
We never get upset over what happens. Never. We get upset because of preconceived ideas as to what we think should happen,… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
The idea of watching an entire film basically from one person's perspective - and not even really from their perspective, but [it's]… — Bun B Copy Share Image
Some people have no original ideas because they do not think well enough of themselves to consider their ideas worth noticing and… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Yes, I backed the hula hoop. And I had a lot of other people come to me with ideas that turned out… — Art Linkletter Copy Share Image
I have no idea what advantages I truly get, but I know people talk to me and give me time of day… — Cameron Russell Copy Share Image
The most successful businesses have an idea for the future that's very different from the present. — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
Forever is not an idea or a concept, it is reality. All of the things here come from forever. We call forever… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I do get obsessed with constantly thinking of ideas, all day long, but that's just how it is. — Johnny Knoxville Copy Share Image
Drinking wine and wearing trousers were nothing compared to reading the history of ideas. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
Leo had wanted to paint a giant message on the bottom of the hull-WASSUP? with a smiley-face-but Annabeth had vetoed the idea. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
When we have a brilliant idea, instead of making others think it is ours, why not let them cook and stir the… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows. — William James Copy Share Image
Nothing dies harder than a bad idea. And few ideas are worse than the ones we have about art. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Purely cinematic film ... actually the purest expression of a cinematic idea. — Francois Truffaut Copy Share Image
There are ideas it will be easy to say in the future that we just don't have the language for now. — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
Men and women do not live by bread alone. They also need sustaining ideas. — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
Unconsciously transmitting ideas to the other MC way back when……,,,..#quantum — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
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