I'm happy in a silent world - well, not a silent world but one that relies on - I'm in a pretty… — Guy Pearce Copy Share Image
The simple idea that everyone needs a reasonable amount of challenging work in his or her life, and also a personal life,… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
Sensorial perception, for example, certainly occurs with greater or less accuracy according to the degree of interest; it is constantly given other… — Hermann Ebbinghaus Copy Share Image
It took me a long time to understand the relationship between ideas and between objective facts. But after I clearly understood this… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
I grew up in the '80s where there's a lot of these kind of post-apocalyptic, post-comet, post-whatever it was, so that always… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I am a bit of a fundamentalist when it comes to black women's hair. Hair is hair - yet also about larger… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
When you're the head coach at Texas and you're winning a lot of games, you don't have to have new ideas, you… — Mack Brown Copy Share Image
I am in love with the idea of doing a movie in 3D. I think 3D would be great for the story… — Bernardo Bertolucci Copy Share Image
Belief is one of the most powerful organic forces in the multiverse. It may not be able to move mountains, exactly. But… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance, it becomes literature. That intensity may be a… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Since I'm doing so much science, I think the reason these ideas have occurred to me and not to other people in… — Dave Soldier Copy Share Image
You are saying, are you not, I said to Manuelito, that stories have more room in them than ideas? [...] He laughed.… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Art and activism seem to go together naturally, the idea being that if you're an entertainer, you can have a voice, and… — Salma Hayek Copy Share Image
There's a clarity that comes with great ideas: You can [easily and simply] explain why something's a great business, how and why… — Joel Greenblatt Copy Share Image
A Strange melancholy pervades me to which I hesitate to give the grave and beautiful name of sorrow. The idea of sorrow… — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
The idea of separating church and state by the Founding Fathers of America was freedom from the domination of one form of… — John Lennox Copy Share Image
I guess there's only two possible places ideas can come from. One is the outside: everything that happens to you and everything… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
If you see your brother in need, it doesn't matter if you already gave somewhere else. You should be open to the… — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
I made a point of always teaching undergraduates because they are not a captive audience. . . . I always tried out… — Edmund Morgan Copy Share Image
Maybe I'm naive, but I subscribe to the idea that nobody is actually making strategic decisions about their career. Trying to do… — Benjamin Walker Copy Share Image
Repentance means to have a hearty, thorough, change of mind and it includes the idea of rejecting and renouncing the sinful, filthy… — Fred Phelps Copy Share Image
My idea of government support was, you supply me with hospitals, schools and the environment to do well and that will do… — Alan Sugar Copy Share Image
Oddly enough, I think that everybody can relate to revenge, on some level. Everyone has wanted to exact it, at some point,… — Emily VanCamp Copy Share Image
Where do new ideas come from? The answer is simple: differences. While there are many theories of creativity, the only tenet they… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
I think that [Jay] Gould's separate compartments was a purely political ploy to win middle-of-the-road religious people to the science camp. But… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
School systems should base their curriculum not on the idea of separate subjects, but on the much more fertile idea of disciplines...… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
Your idea of bliss is to wake up on a Monday morning knowing you haven't a single engagement for the entire week.… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
I've talked to a lot of artists - painters, writers, musicians - many of whom have had great ideas on trains. The… — Peter Gabriel Copy Share Image
In order for us to truly create and contribute to the world, we have to be able to connect countless dots, to… — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
To me, true prosperity begins with feeling good about yourself. It is also the freedom to do what you want to do,… — Louise Hay Copy Share Image
The young are always coming up with the good ideas; it's because they waste time. They follow their passion and do something,… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
In fact, my methodology is based on the idea of waiting for when inspiration arrives for the actors. And that means that… — Albert Serra Copy Share Image
She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to stay involved with young people. I never bought into the idea that entertainers owe nothing to their audience… — Pat Boone Copy Share Image
Sawbeaked epitome of bodiless Idea, tossed by gusts of ether, dive Through abstract mists and raid the sea of fact Eat rich… — Philip Jose Farmer Copy Share Image
I read once about the concepts of a lateral idea and the vertical idea. If you dig a hole and it’s in… — Seymour Chwast Copy Share Image
I truly believe that writing is a continuum - so the different genres and forms are simply stops along the same continuum.… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
Men want to be reminded, who do not want to be taught; because those original ideas of rectitude to which the mind… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
A well-maintained physique is a great business card. Ideas and intelligence are what matters, but if you have a well-maintained physique, it's… — Giorgio Armani Copy Share Image
![“You are saying, are you not, I said to Manuelito, that stories have more room in them than ideas? [...] He laughed. That is correct, Señor. It is as if ideas are made of blocks. Rigid and hard. And stories are made of a gauze that is elastic. You can almost see through it, so what is beyond is…” quote by Alice Walker](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/a65/alice-walker-347_block_you-are-saying-are-you-not-i-said-to-man_2970096.png)
![“There's a clarity that comes with great ideas: You can [easily and simply] explain why something's a great business, how and why it's cheap, why it's cheap for temporary reasons and how, on a normal basis, it should be trading at a much higher level. You're never sitting there on the 40th page of…” quote by Joel Greenblatt](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/ffb/joel-greenblatt-21588_agonizing_there-s-a-clarity-that-comes-with-great_467148.jpg)
![“I think that [Jay] Gould's separate compartments was a purely political ploy to win middle-of-the-road religious people to the science camp. But it's a very empty idea. There are plenty of places where religion does not keep off the scientific turf.” quote by Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/3d7/richard-dawkins-115_camps_i-think-that-jay-gould-s-separate-compar_359975.jpg)
