“Public opinion is to an unconventional idea … what abortion is to sperm.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
've had notebooks, but they are nondescript. All I care about is that they fit in my hand. I scribble down ideas.… — Sefi Atta Copy Share Image
I am in no sense of the word a great artist, not even a great animator; I have always had men working… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
When two texts, or two assertions, perhaps two ideas, are in contradiction, be ready to reconcile them rather than cancel one by… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Brutes gaze on sights, they are arrested by sounds; and what they see and what they hear are sights and sounds only.… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
Even the crudest, most derivative novel is an expression of the author's hopes and fears and ideas about good and evil. — Steven Saylor Copy Share Image
My success has been something I've worked a long time at and it's been a gradual process. I compare it to the… — Ray William Johnson Copy Share Image
When public figures think they can open a business even though they've got no business experience, it's a bad idea. — Moby Copy Share Image
A disease of the mind, [whose] germ is the idea that one may learn that which is valuable, or in any way… — Kingsley Martin Copy Share Image
In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
I like the idea of imagining a sound and feeling a sound and then having it come out through your body, through… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
I belong to you. He has no idea what he's up against. And that will get him in the end. I believe… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
I often joke with my audiences that I make most of my income on a ski pole. People smile but they get… — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
I have tried to avoid long numerical computations, thereby following Riemann's postulate that proofs should be given through ideas and not voluminous… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
A global economy is characterized not only by the free movement of goods and services but, more important, by the free movement… — George Soros Copy Share Image
In Hollywood, story content of movies follows a hierarchy of power, not the relative quality of various ideas. Hollywood does not lack… — Terry Rossio Copy Share Image
when anybody talks to me as if I hadn't good sense, I'm immediately tempted to act as if I hadn't. Like sticking… — Helen Eustis Copy Share Image
To be forced to defend oneself is an inherently undesirable position to be in. The focus shifts from ideas to the person… — Maajid Nawaz Copy Share Image
Elegant persuasion is when the other person thought it was their idea. — Marshall Sylver Copy Share Image
Strangely enough, for me, Instagram has been a creatively freeing and inspiring format lately. I have been so very resistant to nearly… — Guinevere Van Seenus Copy Share Image
Sensibility... is a direct and particular reaction to the separate and individual nature of things. It begins and ends with the sensuous… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
Produce as many ideas as possible. Try to produce unlikely ideas. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
I think lots of ideas are sometimes in our heads without us quite, you know, knowing it. — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
Follow those who follow something bigger than themselves - an idea, a belief, a vision, a cause. Run away from those who… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
You have no idea of how many people have control of your life. Make lists of people you trust and love and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
One must search diligently to find laudatory comments on education (other than those pious platitudes which are fodder for commencement speeches). It… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I love the idea of renaissance. If my career is like painting a canvas, I want to have as many different colors… — Nolan Gerard Funk Copy Share Image
I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
The future of commerce is going to be all electronic. The gold standard was a fine idea, but electronic changes of funds… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
Yes, I know,' interrupted Puddleglum. 'And few return to the sunlit lands. You needn't say it again. You are a chap of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In stating that the idea of a separate state is not practical, I'm also stating that the idea of integration, forced integration,… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
It's a weird thing when you make records. You try to hear it before you make it, so you walk into the… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
What persuades men and women to mistake each other from time to time for gods or vermin is ideology. One can understand… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Habits begin as offhanded remarks, ideas and images. And then, layer upon layer, through practice, they grow from cobwebs into cables that… — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
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