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
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
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
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
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
One of the finest beliefs I developed years ago that helped me to enjoy all of my life experience was the idea… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
Mom. I have something to tell you. I’m undead. Now, I know you may have some preconceived notions about the undead. I… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
To express dynamic motion through a static moment became for me limited and unsatisfactory. The basic idea was to liberate myself from… — Ernst Haas Copy Share Image
Nothing is as difficult as to achieve results in this world if one is filled full of great tolerances and the milk… — Corinne Roosevelt Robinson Copy Share Image
So many of the stories are about perspective and viewpoint. It's not just about seeing and revelation. The idea of having many… — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
Idea for a short story. The shore of a lake, a young girl who's spent her whole life beside it, a girl… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Reading a poem is a real thing, a worthy thing. So to be there right with the reader at that moment is… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
More attention to the History of Science is needed, as much by scientists as by historians, and especially by biologists, and this… — Ronald Fisher 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
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
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
[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
Some artists can work under one guise, whether it's a name or a band or doing film soundtracks, put all of their… — Mike Patton Copy Share Image
I went through a bad period where I was just not writing; I couldn't create anything. I was out of ideas. But… — Allan Holdsworth Copy Share Image
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
They have to put Trump on every program, spewing his crazy ideas, because his poll numbers are so high. And his poll… — Jon Stewart 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
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
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
It is difficult to keep the public interested. The public demands new wonders piled on new wonders. Often we don't know where… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
You need somebody to have the idea, you need somebody who can deal with the studio and the normal things, but it's… — Rick McCallum Copy Share Image
The Alanis Morissette tour, everybody thinks that was all sitting around, lighting candles and talking intelligently about synergy and big words. That… — Taylor Hawkins Copy Share Image
In hunting ideas for books, I look for stories about long-past events that once commanded the world's attention but that, for one… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
The only thing contrived is the production - you can over-produce to the point you kill a good idea, you can under-produce… — Ryan Tedder Copy Share Image
A big part of the problem that we face today is that our children have been taught at schools that every idea… — Ed Royce Copy Share Image
My favorite idea is doing an all-night tent show starring my friend's band Marijuana Deathsquads, where everyone would wear super-loud headphones, and… — Justin Vernon Copy Share Image
The idea of Judaism as a flower, it a message for Jewish people, talking about the future. Many people associate Judaism with… — Csanad Szegedi Copy Share Image
The big ideas always come in flashes. I don't really craft stories that much. I genuinely don't know where these people come… — Taiye Selasi Copy Share Image
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