The reason for our success is no secret. It comes down to one single principle that transcends time and geography, religion and… — Isadore Sharp Copy Share Image
The idea that America elected a black man to be its president forty years after it declined to allow Martin Luther King… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
“What you should do is hire very smart people who are a good fit. And then you should expose them (and yourself)… — Joseph Jaffe Copy Share Image
In painting I try to make some logic out of the world that has been given to me in chaos. I have… — Grace Hartigan Copy Share Image
I am spellbound by the plays of Shakespeare. And I am spellbound by the second law of thermodynamics. The great ideas in… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
We're still growing into that place of higher consciousness; we are becoming a global conscience. The idea is to unravel the onion… — Jon Anderson Copy Share Image
The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
In proportion as man gets back the spirit of manliness, which is self-sacrifice, affection, loyalty loan idea beyond himself, a God above… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Tourism as a number-one industry is a terrible, terrible idea for any city, especially New York. If you were going to turn… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
“Si l'on n'est plus que mille, eh bien, j'en suis ! Si même Ils ne sont plus que cent, je brave encor… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
A writer always wears glasses and never combs his hair. Half the time he feels angry about everything and the other half… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Just work. Don't wait. Everybody's waiting until they have the perfect idea to start working. Even if you have an inkling of… — Brandon Stanton Copy Share Image
...she took her hand and raised her brush. For a moment it stayed trembling in a painful but exciting ecstacy in the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Conversations...begin with the sort of imaginative engagement you get when you read a novel or watch a movie or attend to a… — Kwame Anthony Appiah Copy Share Image
I already love the idea that Barry has a colleague. It seems like a love/hate thing between my character and his already.… — Tom Felton Copy Share Image
I source images and ideas from different parts of my experiences, and sometimes they are things that are made-up, or just appear… — Julia Stone Copy Share Image
To live forever should not be an obligation. In fact, eternal life should only be for those who wish for it, because… — Claude Vorilhon Copy Share Image
If I could give you one thought, it would be to lift someone up. Lift a stranger up--lift her up. I would… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
When I talk about losing myself, which I did, it's losing my idea of who I was and my idea of what… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
An invaluable part of intellectual (and personal) growth comes from having the freedom to express your own ideas, and to engage with… — Kat Timpf Copy Share Image
“... A nightmare is something you awaken from, Peter," she had said. "But thoughts and ideas that remain after its terrors have… — John Katzenbach Copy Share Image
Growing up, others girls wanted to dance and help their mums with the cooking. I liked to play soccer with the boys.… — Ali Larter Copy Share Image
We need to move into a culture of peace. What I hope to promote is the idea that we all need each… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
We are contaminated with the idea of "winning" and defeating others. Indoctrinated by parents, schools, and our ubiquitous media, hammered with a… — Daniel Gillies Copy Share Image
When you are ready to make your first hires, look for people who understand your passion, want to add to your ideas… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
People ask my mother whether she had any idea that I'd be CEO of a company some day, and she would say,… — Anne M. Mulcahy Copy Share Image
Roblox is all about inspiring and empowering people to learn, create and explore new ideas - that goes for both the experiences… — David Baszucki Copy Share Image
I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
I knew I was a good stage actor but I had no idea about movies. And I wasn't a Paul Newman type… — Ed O'Neill Copy Share Image
Human development, as an approach, is concerned with what I take to be the basic development idea: namely, advancing the richness of… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
I graduated high school, and I always wanted to go to college, but I also really wanted to work at a young… — Lily Collins Copy Share Image
To get a big company moving fast, especially on a many-headed opportunity like the Internet, you have to have hundreds of people… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Experiences in order to be educative must lead out into an expanding world of subject matter, a subject matter of facts or… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The Chinese are clearly inculcating the idea that science is exciting and important, and that's why they, as a whole-they're graduating four… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
When I finish a book, I get extremely restless; I have to aggressively find ways to occupy myself; going off into the… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato,--at once the glory and the shame of mankind, since neither Saxon nor Roman have availed to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We're not competing against other people who have similar ideas but we're competing against ideas of work in general. There are still… — Miguel McKelvey Copy Share Image
“An idea can destroy the mind of a human being, twist it into a dark path of destruction and illness. But only… — Ingrid Copy Share Image
Why is marijuana against the law? It grows naturally upon our planet. Doesn’t the idea of making nature against the law seem… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
Grandfather was well known for being stubborn in his ideas. For instance... you had to go to sleep facing east so that… — Michael Dorris Copy Share Image
