Idealists are people who believe in the potential of human nature for transformation. . . . The most essential attribute of human… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Social evolution is a resultant of the interaction of two wholly distinct factors: the individual ... bearing all the power of initiative… — William James Copy Share Image
The essentials of being a person of my type lies precisely in what they think and how they think, not in what… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Inventive man has invented nothing -- nothing from scratch. If he has produced a machine that in motion overcomes the law of… — Dorothy Thompson Copy Share Image
Nations are political and military entities, and so are blocs of nations. But it doesn't necessarily follow from this that they are… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
I never got really into Twitter until more recently when I started doing the Dirt Nasty thing, and created that other character.… — Simon Rex Copy Share Image
While the (America's) Cup is yachting's Holy Grail, it has also come to represent the ultimate test in 'the game of life.'… — Dennis Conner Copy Share Image
Accountability is essential to personal growth, as well as team growth. How can you improve if you're never wrong? If you don't… — Pat Summitt Copy Share Image
Elizabeth Taylor is, in my opinion, the greatest actress in film history. She instinctively understands the camera and its nonverbal intimacies. Opening… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential orifice, these… — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
In our society competitive capitalism has put family life and working life on a collision course.In Canada statistics show that over 70… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
The most essential thing in dance discipline is devotion, the steadfast and willing devotion to the labor that makes the classwork not… — Merce Cunningham Copy Share Image
The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a realm; his… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
As in Machiavelli, the bearing of arms is the essential medium through which the individual asserts both his social power and his… — J. G. A. Pocock Copy Share Image
Was his death an essential stage in the continuation of his life? — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Unlike the novel, a short story may be, for all purposes, essential. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The essential fact is that all the pictures which science now draws of nature, and which alone seem capable of according with… — James Jeans Copy Share Image
Many different planets are many different distances from their host star; we find ourselves at this distance because if we were closer… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
I have always firmly believed that every director should be judged solely by their work, and not by their work based on… — Kathryn Bigelow Copy Share Image
It is quite clear that as long as the nations of the world spend most of their energy, money, and emotional strength… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Plants make the air! Do you understand what that means? Our food, our air, our very lives come from the plants. How… — Maryrose Wood Copy Share Image
Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to, but be respected - that is essential. — Anna Gould Copy Share Image
Creating a strong business and building a better world are not conflicting goals - they are both essential ingredients for long-term success — Bill Ford Copy Share Image
