I think the idealism has always been marketing. Even back in the early days of Apple and the 'pirate' mentality, they were… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
Pure pragmatism can't imagine a bold future. Pure idealism can't get anything done. It is the delicate blend of both that drives… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
General ideas are essences. They are our gods: they round and ennoble the most partial and sordid way of living. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“she would have been disappointed if he had not demonstrated such idealism, for he was yet to reach twenty-one; youth without optimism,… — Jacqueline Winspear Copy Share Image
The fact is, beneath the hype, Iraqis will soon appreciate American help and idealism far more than French perfidy. It is never… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
All each ism does, in its revolt against the inadequacy of the previous one, is to thoroughly upset the order of terms… — Jean Helion Copy Share Image
It is foolish to view realism and idealism as incompatible or to consider our power and wealth as encumbered by the demands… — John McCain Copy Share Image
I am eternally, devastatingly romantic, and I thought people would see it because 'romantic' doesn't mean 'sugary.' It's dark and tormented —… — Catherine Breillat Copy Share Image
I want to remember what bullshit looks like when weapons of mass destruction are diagrammed out and whacko "intelligence" is delivered in… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“What you don't know don't hurt you, for it ain't real. They called that Idealism in my book I had when I… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
But, most of all, the Great Society is not a safe harbor, a resting place, a final objective, a finished work. It… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
“It's idealistic, it's for love and gentleness, it's close to nature, it hurts nobody, it's voluntary. I can't see anything wrong with… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“How many times in life have I been advised to "toe the line," to "tone it down," to stop "pushing the envelope"?… — Sherry Jones Copy Share Image
A visionary company doesn't simply balance between idealism and profitability: it seeks to be highly idealistic and highly profitable. A visionary company… — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
When I first ran for public office, it was with the passion and idealism of a young man who believed that government… — James McGreevey Copy Share Image
The way in which a certain kind of political idealism has been discredited and scorned makes the danger not that intellectuals keep… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
A lot of the idealism of the Sixties was spot on, from the environmentalism to the war to the Civil Rights movement,… — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
“Most of the time we are too critical to ourselves that we don't see worth in small achievements and feel I could… — The Idealist Merchant Copy Share Image
Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
Chivalry - ...a romantic idealism closely related to Christianity, which makes honor the guiding principle of conduct. Connected with this is the… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
I was very religious when I was younger. I went to a seminary for three years, studied to be a priest, and… — Peter P. Mahoney Copy Share Image
“idealism misconstrues agency, implying the capacity to bring about influence where that capacity may not exist or where it may only be… — James Davison Hunter Copy Share Image
The president [Barack Obama] laid out his vision for foreign policy in a way that we hadn't heard before. And it could… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“We tend to take whatever’s worked in our particular set of circumstances (big family, small family, AP, Ezzo, home school, public school)… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
Idealism is based on big ideas. And, as anybody who has ever been asked "What's the big idea?" knows, most big ideas… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The materialistic idealism that governs American life, that on the one hand makes a chariot of every grocery wagon, and on the… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
We need not seek our own best selves, and in the meantime we inoculate ourselves against the viruses of age and idealism,… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
When you have both parties who will not find ways to compromise, who won't meet in the middle, you have paralysis. It's… — Beau Willimon Copy Share Image
Idealist: One who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share Image
She was aware that in love even the most passionate idealism will not rid the body's surface of its terrible, basic importance. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The natural idealism of youth is an idealism, alas, for which we do not always provide as many outlets as we should. — Sargent Shriver Copy Share Image
Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Over the past decades...while many businesses have pursued what I call 'business as usual', I have been part of a different, smaller… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
“Lincoln, considering a Cabinet nominee: "He is a Radical without the petulance and fretfulness of many radicals.” — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
School is such an encouraging and safe environment. It's filled with idealism and just really working on your craft. When you enter… — Troy Garity Copy Share Image
I was saying to Paul Schrader that he missed the idealism and the passion of that era in Hollywood, but also in… — Margot Kidder Copy Share Image
No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking all their… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image