Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist's true friend. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“My generation failed to change the world, but at least I did not let the world change me.” — Chronis Missios Copy Share Image
Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will. — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
It's important to start off with ideals, even if they become modified at some later stage. — Stuart Pearson Wright 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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
Most fatal, most hateful of all things is bullying… Sensual bullying of course is fairly easily detected. What is more dangerous is… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The artist who really loves people loves them so well the way they are he sees no need to disguise their characteristics-he… — Dawn Powell Copy Share Image
“Prophetic pragmatism attempts to keep alive the sense of alternative ways of life and of struggle based on the best of the… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
If there is anything I have learned about men and women, it is that there is a deeper spirit of altruism than… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
For a spy novelist like me, the Edward J. Snowden story has everything. A man driven by ego and idealism - can… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Musically, some of the acts that I've really been identifying with are: Fleetwood Mac, Roxy Music, Vangelis, Jean-Michel Jarre, Earth, Wind &… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
“We write, edit, and rewrite the story of our own life employing descriptive words, metaphors, and symbols. Our lives are full of… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
There is something in the American project, something in simple American oratory, something in the hope and idealism of this frustrating and… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
“Traffic slowed as they entered Fort Washakie with everyone rubbernecking the spirited powwow taking place in an empty field just off the… — Casey Fisher Copy Share Image
“It is clearly the result, not of carelessness but of matured judgement of our age, which will no longer rest satisfied with… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The overall picture, as the boys say, is of a degraded community whose idealism even is largely fake. The pretentiousness, the bogus… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“We've already had Malthus , the friend of humanity. But the friend of humanity with shaky moral principles is the devourer of… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
In this same tradition, beauty is inextricably bound up with the principles of order and harmony believed to underlie the cosmos. Artists… — John Walford Copy Share Image
“People are creators. But I doubt that many realize this. We are not meant to go out into the world and find… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“What I didn’t say was: I know you too well. You live your life idealistically. You think it’s possible to opt out… — Ling Ma Copy Share Image
“The late 1920s were an age of islands, real and metaphorical. They were an age when Americans by thousands and tens of… — Malcolm Cowley Copy Share Image
