It was Rousseau who was largely responsible for the problem by giving currency to the idea that freedom can exist without responsibility… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products. — James Dyson Copy Share Image
In terms of writing and developing, TV is very open because TV needs stories. They need new pitches, and they need new… — Lexi Alexander Copy Share Image
Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd. — China Mieville Copy Share Image
I think it sits quite happily with me, the condition of being an actor. I see some people getting quite eaten up… — Matthew Macfadyen Copy Share Image
We never get upset over what happens. Never. We get upset because of preconceived ideas as to what we think should happen,… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
It was from America that the plain ideas that men ought to mind their business, and that the nation is responsible to… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
We all have an enormous responsibility to bring to the attention of others information they do not have, which has the potential… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
No man dares to condemn the Christian faith today, because the Christian faith has not been tried. Not until men get rid… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
I want to be a serial entrepreneur: Incubate an idea, get it to a good state, and make that an enabler to… — Jefferson Han Copy Share Image
I loved the idea of doing something that has this misconception about what stewardesses were. And, I also love the idea that… — Christina Ricci Copy Share Image
Creativity is a by-product of hard work. If I never have another really new idea, it won't matter. — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
I like collaboration, I like to incorporate other people's ideas [and] that's what happens when you do a big movie. Unless you're… — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
Titles have never given a just idea of things; were it otherwise, the work would be superfluous. — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
I just like the idea of trying something that no one's ever tried before, and I really wanted to know if it… — Taj Burrow Copy Share Image
Concerning all acts of initiative there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
We're all so clogged with dead ideas passed from generation to generation that even the best of us don't know the way… — Peter Weiss Copy Share Image
Shakespeare's plays often turn on the idea of fate, as much drama does. What makes them so tragic is the gap between… — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
I never want to overstay my welcome for any character. I would rather people are excited by the ideas a character generates… — Rupert Friend Copy Share Image
The people that are around me that give me ideas that I pass along or we try, the one thing I never… — John Calipari Copy Share Image
The idea of trying to fight against extremism was written off as naive. — Joichi Ito 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
I am constantly thinking of different ideas and formats for TV shows. I am in a place where anything is possible if… — Alesha Dixon Copy Share Image
I am proud to work with the fossil fuel industry. I think it has historically done a horrible job of educating the… — Alex Epstein Copy Share Image
Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
The great constructive energies of the child ... have hitherto been concealed beneath an accumulation of ideas concerning motherhood. We used to… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
To be creative, an idea must also be appropriate—useful and actionable. — Teresa Amabile Copy Share Image
Essayists must not only be succinct but have original ideas and, even harder to come by, or to fake, likable voices. Consciously… — Cyra McFadden Copy Share Image
The idea that we industrialized humans are immune to the natural laws that have restrained growth in other species-and humans in past… — Richard Heinberg Copy Share Image
Too many people hold the idea that psychopaths are essentially killers or convicts. The general public hasn't been educated to see beyond… — Robert D. Hare Copy Share Image
I could've enjoyed a cigarette if I smoked back before everyone knew it was bad - say, like, 1923. Everybody smoked back… — Arj Barker Copy Share Image
Withal I did infer your lineaments, Being the right idea of your father, Both in your form and nobleness of mind; Laid… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I find the idea of common descent (that all organisms share a common ancestor) fairly convincing, and have no particular reason to… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
Don't use your mind for a filing cabinet. Use your mind to work out problems and find answers; file away good ideas… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
We're going to sing about things that matter to us. The balancing act is to present these ideas but also make the… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
Do I regret leaving Milan? I decided I needed a change. I needed to find new ideas, and that was the best… — Andrea Pirlo Copy Share Image
Back when we were Neanderthals or whatever, we evolved to think along tribal lines. Survival was based on this idea of who… — Jordan Peele Copy Share Image
Once I'm given an idea for a story I have a million ideas on how it should be illustrated, but I don't… — Brian Selznick Copy Share Image