Ideas are to objects as constellations are to stars [translated from Trauerspiel, 1928]. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
People adopt ideas when social, personal and financial trends intersect-a confluence that may seem random but usually happens 'by design. — Clement Mok Copy Share Image
Many of us had this idea of doing independent film, of making personal, relevant films, as opposed to Hollywood fluff. I directed… — Robert Kane Pappas Copy Share Image
I'm a little uncomfortable with the idea of judges overruling presidents on national security matters. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Why not begin operating under the idea that God has given us excess, not so we could have more, but so we… — David Platt Copy Share Image
You must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from the idea that people are watching you. — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
I always believed in God, I would go to mass most of the time, but I had no idea of the calling… — Jim Caviezel Copy Share Image
Capitalism is a great idea in theory, but in practice it just doesn't work. — Jeremy Hardy Copy Share Image
People don't wish to watch masala films of the '50s any more. Audiences do not want loud films at all. They are… — Farah Khan Copy Share Image
Social innovation thrives on collaboration; on doing things with others, rather than just to them or for them: hence the great interest… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
I have seen entrepreneurs ask for hundreds of millions of dollars on a concept and try to sell because of 'their passion'… — Kevin Harrington Copy Share Image
“They spent days, nights, weeks and months talking, never accepting the fact that, good or bad, an idea only exists when someone… — Paolo Coelho Copy Share Image
Now that I look back, it seems to me that in all that deep darkness a miracle was preparing. So I am… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
In Chicago, if you tell someone you're a writer, they look at you suspiciously - as if to say "yeah, right." In… — Elaine Equi Copy Share Image
I wanted to be of service to the Peace League, and how could I better do so than by trying to write… — Bertha von Suttner Copy Share Image
Our first idea is a grand opening, a big launch, a press release, or major media coverage. We default to thinking we… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
It may be that a free society... carries in itself the forces of its own destruction, that once freedom has been achieved… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Freedom of mind and mind itself have been most fully developed in regions where trade developed at the same time. In all… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Nature is a tenacious recycler, every dung heap and fallen redwood tree a bustling community of saprophytes wresting life from the dead… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
This new England we have invented for ourselves is not interested at all in education. It is only interested in training, both… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Narcissism and Christianity have little in common, yet the Romantic paradigm of artistic creativity, particularly in light of subsequent Freudian ideas, has… — John Walford Copy Share Image
I think that were I in the middle of an obsession to write about, say, sudden oak death in California or my… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
People with big ideas worry. They lie awake at night and fret as they try to climb up the social or financial… — Lisa Jewell Copy Share Image
Marcel Eliade took the position that hallucinogenic shamanism was decadent, and Gordon Wasson, very rightly I believe, contravened this view and held… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Risk taking and the drive to pursue innovative ideas are the fuel that stokes the entrepreneurial spirit. — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Everything that you are or conceive of yourself as being is just an idea. It's an illusion. It's a hallucination. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We have an arsenal of ideas about land use possibly as dangerous to human life on the planet as the use of… — Janet Kauffman Copy Share Image
The idea that teaching is somehow the delivery of the goods is such a misunderstanding of what actually goes on. — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Sharing an idea you care about is a generous way to change your world for the better. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
There are only a few images that are not forced to provide meaning, or have to go through the filter of a… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Ideas by themselves cannot produce change of being; your effort must go in the right direction, and one must correspond to the… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
I have found that children are the most open-minded of all my audiences. They are not set in their ways. They are… — Ziggy Marley Copy Share Image
As you move through life, set aside good ideas and give them to others to encourage and inspire. — Peter J. Daniels Copy Share Image
To be an American is not...a matter of blood; it is a matter of an idea--and history is the image of that… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
I'm trying to transform behaviors and ideas that have never been challenged in certain ways in my life. I'm not the kid… — Nate Parker Copy Share Image
If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom. — Nigel Farage Copy Share Image
It was a turning point in the sense that as a scene, we can up with a lot of new ideas. — Arto Lindsay Copy Share Image
I couldn't name more than a couple of good drum'n'bass acts, and I have no idea what's big in the dance world… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
There's not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else's brains. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Nothing is more powerful for your future than being a gatherer of good ideas and information. That's called doing your homework. — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image