That's the power of great insights. Insights, not ideas. There's a difference. Ideas, valuable though they may be, are a dime a… — Phil Dusenberry Copy Share Image
“When you're ten, the worst ideas in the world can somehow seem like the greatest ideas ever imagined. That's why my friends… — Justin McFarr Copy Share Image
In those days it was possible for a Greek to flee from an over-abundant reality as though it were but the tricky… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
So for me the approach has become to go into a story not really sure of what I want to say, try… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Television and movies just take so long. If you pitch a show or develop a project, it can be a year before… — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
The reason why Matthew Arnold, to my feeling, fails entirely as a poet (though no doubt his ideas were good - at… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
The one thing that I think separates Microsoft from a lot of other people is we make bold bets. We're persistent about… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share Image
We have started something called the Corporate Services Corps. Now, it was modeled after the Peace Corps from long ago, the 1960s.… — Ginni Rometty Copy Share Image
Sometimes I am more interested in the richness of the material with all the stuff we've done which all tell a story… — Larry Fessenden Copy Share Image
[Bill] Binney will argue with you all day about ThinThread, but his idea was that it would collect everything about everybody but… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
But when we reduce sex to a function, we also invoke the idea of dysfunction. We are no longer talking about the… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
If God does exist, it's in music and in art, I think there's more spiritually in what I do than in a… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
... if you repeat a thought, or say a word, over and over again-not once, not twice, but dozens, hundreds, thousands of… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
The vitality of thought is in adventure. Idea's won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I think what you see a lot of in American religion, even in areas of American Christianity that don't go all the… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
But I ask you, those of you who are with us all day, not to stress yourselves out because of us. When… — Naoki Higashida Copy Share Image
If you read many contemporary literary novels today, you may notice that regardless of the subject matter there's a 'sameness' about them,… — Suhayl Saadi Copy Share Image
It is terrible to see how a single unclear idea, a single formula without meaning, lurking in a young man's head, will… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Indeed taking all the evidence together, it is not too much to say that there is no single historic incident better or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I liked the idea of a self-contained, endless pursuit of perfection. But I have a problem with perfection. I don't think perfection… — Elliott Smith Copy Share Image
If there is no idea in the drawing, there is no idea in the constructed project. That's the expression of the idea.… — Lebbeus Woods Copy Share Image
Philiosophers like Hume and Descartes and Hobbes saw things similarly. They thought that mental images and ideas were actually the same thing.… — Mary Lou Jepsen Copy Share Image
What's exciting to me now is the idea in participating in a landscape of moviemaking that's completely different - the way you… — Alden Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Reality is very, very contradictory, and so I try to write just perfecting what I see, what I read, what I feel,… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
Those of us who make films try to make something that we're feeling and that we would like. Then we just hope… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
What does impress both the unsaved and saved alike are those rare individuals who have learned to control their lifestyles and use… — Larry Burkett Copy Share Image
The evolutionary vision is agnostic in regard to systems in the universe of greater complexity than those of which human beings have… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Almost everyone working in mainstream comics started off as a starry-eyed kid reading and loving comics. We're all fans, and that's great.… — Greg Pak Copy Share Image
Many young men in the 1960s and 1970s came to reject some of the traditional ideas about manhood that many of their… — Jackson Katz Copy Share Image
I've often hesitated in beginning a project because I've thought, 'It'll never turn out to be even remotely like the good idea… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
The idea that a bell rings to signal when investors should get into or out of the stock market is simply not… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
We try to make each situation specific to the person. At the beginning of the season, we come up with, like, 50… — Ashton Kutcher Copy Share Image
How very seldom do you encounter in the world a man of great abilities, acquirements, experience, who will unmask his mind, unbutton… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Progo,' Meg asked. 'You memorized the names of all the stars - how many are there?' How many? Great heavens, earthling. I… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
When you work in the United States Senate, and you are around people of all different ideas and beliefs, you realize that… — Claire McCaskill Copy Share Image
Cause Jesus I do think did exist, and he was, I think, a guy who had interesting ideas in the Gandhi-type area,… — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
Those silly girls had no idea what they were really celebrating. They had no idea what it took to bring Agatha and… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make. We waste so much time… — Sandra Bullock Copy Share Image
The whole idea of mindfulness is all about having a second-level monitoring of your thoughts and being able to recognize them as… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
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