What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
People just project their idea of my character on to me and they just seem to assume that I'm the same, when,… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
The foundation of greatness is honoring the small things of the present moment, instead of pursuing the idea of greatness. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
As a team, act with togetherness, so have the same ideas in every situation. That means bravery. — Erik ten Hag Copy Share Image
The idea of the divine-human friendship originated with God. Had not God said first 'Ye are my friends?' (John 15:14) — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
There's no idea in the world that is not contained by black life. I could write forever about the black experience in… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
At Nokia, we have an internal market for ideas. There could be someone in Nokia who wants research, and they will come… — Jan Chipchase Copy Share Image
By what strange law of mind is it that an idea long overlooked, and trodden under foot as a useless stone, suddenly… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
I'm open for possibilities. I'm open for choices. I always welcome new ideas. I'm always eager to learn. I'm never going to… — Cesar Millan Copy Share Image
The importance of Plotinus is not only his own philosophical ideas which are quite interesting, but his historical impact as the founder… — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
Above all things we must be aware of what I will call 'inert ideas' - that is to say, ideas that are… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Everything is stuck together. People are stuck together. They can't change. Ideas are stuck together - they're irrevocable. We think that the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I think of a plot, I think of an idea, and then I wonder, How can I get that onto the stage?… — Alan Ayckbourn Copy Share Image
Alice Adams wrote a sweet note to me after my first novel came out when I was 26, and I was so… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
We think about education as a stepping stone into a higher socio-economic class, into a better job. And it does do those… — Tara Westover Copy Share Image
I can't be a part of the problem. I hate the idea of a label just as much as anyone else but… — Amber Heard Copy Share Image
Christ represents originally: 1) men before God; 2) God for men; 3) men to man. Similarly, money represents originally, in accordance with… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
We must make the building of a free society once more an intellectual adventure, a deed of courage… Unless we can make… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
If an artist may say nothing except what he has invented by his own sole efforts, it stands to reason he will… — Robin G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
Most of us want to tell our coworkers or friends, or husbands or wives, our ideas. For what reason? We want validation.… — Sara Blakely Copy Share Image
God made all the animals in a single day; he could have swept them all away in the flood and re-created them… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Introverts need to trust their gut and share their ideas as powerfully as they can. This does not mean aping extroverts; ideas… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“but, like many ideas, that one was more appealing in concept than in execution” — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
The next time someone starts listing all the reasons an idea won't work or can't happen, ask them to give 3 reasons… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
My idea of a holiday was following my family up the hill with my pekinese, who would skip over the heather in… — Rupert Everett Copy Share Image
The new leaders face new tests such as how to lead in this idea-intensive, interdependent network environment — John Sculley Copy Share Image
...it was never a good idea to date a foreigner. You can never tell when they're lying.' 'hello. Dave was BRITISH. — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
When you bring an idea that has no merit to me, and you ask me to comment on it, I'm going to… — Kevin O'Leary Copy Share Image
That's sort of the idea that if we, in attempting to explain away that which is experienced, the experience itself is diminished. — Fred Alan Wolf Copy Share Image
What we're trying to do is find two or more shots the juxtaposition of which will give us the idea. — David Mamet Copy Share Image
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
I have a lot of sketches and ideas, but when you don't use them, they get stale. — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
Flattery is no more than what raises in a man's mind an idea of a preference which he has not. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I have no idea why people want to watch puppets be the slightly meaner version of the weirdo holding them. It's beyond… — Daniel Tosh Copy Share Image
Ideas that transform industries almost never come from inside those industries. — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
Actors have to protect each other in a way. The idea of humiliating another actor or being humiliated myself is devastating. — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
The idea that the Tony committee and the New York theater community as a whole have embraced 'Billy Elliot' is very, very… — Eric Fellner Copy Share Image