Do you know that all great spurts in...progress came just after some unorthodox ideas or exotic impressions had penetrated into a closed… — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share Image
I don't necessarily think I look to books for ideas, but sometimes when I'm in the process of reading a great book,… — Dan Mangan Copy Share Image
Being able to take musical ideas through every iteration is attractive to me. Granted, not everyone's going to want to listen to… — Beck Copy Share Image
Critics of the Wall Street protesters claim that they have old ideas, nothing new, and they're never going to work. Wait a… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
When a marriage founders, this may well be cause for tremendous sadness, but it's not a failure of spirit or character. People… — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
We have to challenge the whole idea that it's acceptable for a society like Britain to have such a significant number of… — Iain Duncan Smith Copy Share Image
Being a moral realist I see normative ethics as a search of the truth about our obligations and a search of explanation;… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
You have no idea how humiliating it was, as a boy, to suddenly have all your clothes, your toys, snatched by the… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
By just passing through things, I continue to slightly limit myself. I want the jobs that don't say that much. I'm often… — Gavin Rossdale Copy Share Image
When I was thinking about what we could do in terms of what production values of Broadway might be able to add… — Alex Timbers Copy Share Image
the African leopard is an audacious animal, although it is ungrateful of me to say a word against him, after the way… — Mary Kingsley Copy Share Image
What's happening is that the will of the people, the declared opinion of the people, who want more agendas, more ideas, more… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
This kind of game in which anybody who I know, regardless of how flimsy the relationship is, that somehow their ideas could… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
This is the ultimate war of ideas. You're trying to get somebody to change their mind about conservatism, because that's exactly what… — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image
The rationale for accepting or rejecting any theory is thus fundamentally based on the idea of problem-solving progress. If one research tradition… — Larry Laudan Copy Share Image
I also have learned as an actor, this ties in the principles of improv, sometimes someone gives a piece of instruction and… — Gillian Jacobs Copy Share Image
The idea that you could stitch together every detail episode to episode and preserve continuity for the length of a season and… — Michael Loceff Copy Share Image
Capitalism attacks and destroys all the finer sentiments of the human heart; it ruthlessly sweeps away old traditions and ideas opposed to… — Daniel De Leon Copy Share Image
Mathematics and art are quite different. We could not publish so many papers that used, repeatedly, the same idea and still command… — Antoni Zygmund Copy Share Image
The people who were learning from me tended to be more commercial performers who were gonna rip off the salient idea to… — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
We don't have a clear path forward, and that's been the case for feminism since the 18th century, when the idea of… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I guess I'm part of the art house, but we really have to shake up our ideas, because we're kind of self-parodying… — Peter Mullan Copy Share Image
My films don't have instant impact because they're dense with ideas that people have not thought about. It takes a while for… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
[The lyrics and melody] usually come a little simultaneously, but I would say the lyrics are first; usually I have the idea… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
Singapore gives 10% "white space" time to all of its teachers to come up with their own innovations outside of the official… — Andy Hargreaves Copy Share Image
Part of the job involves thinking about things and eliminating them. You spend a lot of time coming up with ideas that… — Graham Linehan Copy Share Image
On the flip side, no one has any idea who the hell I am. I felt like I had to prove myself… — Dave Franco Copy Share Image
I always have a pad of paper and a pencil within reach, to catch on the wing this turn of phrase which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“How we devour one another's culture, do so without shame--ideas like water, free flowing and able to take on other forms. Able… — J. Andrew Schrecker Copy Share Image
I thought that was the coolest thing in the world, the idea of somebody trying to solve mysteries. I would see conspiracies… — Alex Hirsch Copy Share Image
It doesn't mean my footballing ideas are special, different, better than the others. I am not saying it's my football, my ideas,… — Pep Guardiola Copy Share Image
The nuclear age has refuted the idea of progress and Marxism has been refuted by Stalinism. Therefore people have returned to the… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
How many thoughts float in and out of your head without your stopping to identify them? How many ideas and insights have… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
I realize that I've had a very idyllic vision of what spirituality looks like. Honestly, most of Western culture has an idyllic… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
I think in society and especially in movies and media we're fed this idea that there's the one or the right person.… — Kether Donohue Copy Share Image
Meditation transports one from the transient world of matter to the real world of dreamings, visions, and imaginings where idea is and… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
There are fast ideas and slow ideas, just as there are fast trains and slow trains. When it comes to money, most… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it… — Barbara Amiel Copy Share Image
I don't know where people get the idea that every Wilco record is supposed to have drama. OK, I guess historically speaking… — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
I don't read a lot of the sports, because I think people sometimes either build it up, or you have this guy… — Herschel Walker Copy Share Image