First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
It is a matter of fact; I approached without a preconceived idea, too ready to declare, if the experiment had imposed upon… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
As any action or posture, long continued, will distort and disfigure the limbs, so the mind likewise is crippled and contracted by… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
The most difficult thing about music videos is that a lot of young filmmakers come into the medium, and they have so… — Hiro Murai Copy Share Image
The idea that God resides in the unknown is what philosophers call the God of the gaps. And we have this thing… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The thing I most connect with is the idea of not giving up. And that's a thing I have in my own… — Callie Thorne Copy Share Image
My persona on stage was always coming from a place of I know better than you and I'm going to be a… — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
It is something I've noticed - that my audiences are young. My only thought has been because I play all-ages shows. Even… — Phil Elverum Copy Share Image
I had no idea that that was around in the family anywhere. Maybe it never was. But - so they broke the… — Maggie Smith Copy Share Image
A very real barrier to faith is this feeling of self-sufficiency, this unrealistic idea that one can accomplish everything by his or… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
I played a couple of ideas and then had this unusual texture underneath which was like this little granulated kind of pipe… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
I don't think that split government is a good idea. Conventional wisdom in Washington for years has been that divided government is… — Scott Walker Copy Share Image
Wikipedia took the idea of peer review and applied it to volunteers on a global scale, becoming the most important English reference… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Yet the leaf is the chief product and phenomenon of Life: this is a green world, with animals comparatively few and small,… — Patrick Geddes Copy Share Image
I know, you've been here a year, you think these people are normal. Well, they're not. WE'RE not. I look in the… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
You can't enter the Olympics unless you do your routine to get in shape for it. The idea of going out on… — Paul Stanley Copy Share Image
Cultivating innovative thinking starts at the top. Leaders can foster a culture of innovation by encouraging creativity and experimenting with new ideas. — Lynne Doughtie Copy Share Image
Women are allowed to enter the spaces of the senses, the space of the body, the spaces opened by sensations, all kinds… — Carmen Boullosa Copy Share Image
“Of course, ideas can always be misleading—but then so can numbers. Still, we advance by learning new ways to think, even if… — Steven E. Landsburg Copy Share Image
It so often happened to me that someone who shared my opinion kept the larger share for himself that I am now… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
I was glad that I could be used as a focal point to possibly bandy around some ideas, and maybe people would… — Joe Wurzelbacher Copy Share Image
Mr. Cooper said to me that he had an idea for a film in mind. The only thing he'd tell me was… — Fay Wray Copy Share Image
MALTHUSIAN, adj. Pertaining to Malthus and his doctrines, who believed in artificially limiting population, but found that it could not be done… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
In a way, my father [Pablo Escobar] reached a certain degree of sincerity that I became to know and I would even… — Juan Pablo Escobar Copy Share Image
I have long-range plans, but you always have to wait for business to catch up with you. It's a matter of contracts… — Rex Smith Copy Share Image
The idea of doing a period movie, some people say, "Isn't it odd that you're doing a period movie? That's a change… — Paul W. S. Anderson Copy Share Image
My boyfriend's idea of a lesson was to take me on a black diamond run in the middle of a hail storm… — Claudia Black Copy Share Image
Every human should have the idea of taking care of the environment, of nature, of water. So using too much or wasting… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Think about what artists, novelists and poets have in common: the ability to engage in metaphorical thinking, linking seemingly unrelated ideas, such… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
I like the idea of going out with a woman and not doing anything, and just eating dinner and talking, and that's… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
There are multitudes of persons whose idea of liberty is the right to do what they please, instead of the right of… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Here's an idea: How about just 'Americans?' That has a nice ring to it, if you ask me. Placing undue emphasis on… — Bobby Jindal Copy Share Image
Question (from a reader) : Will the Wise Goddess Athena overthrow Zeus and become the ruler of Olympus? Athena's answer : What… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The preparation for building a series of thrillers based on a single character is kind of like the preparation for becoming a… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
In the particular dwells the tawdry. In the conceptual dwells the grand, the transcendent, the everlasting. Earthly countries and single malignant boys… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
I usually tell people upfront what to expect, and that I really want their feedback and their ideas, and if they think… — Greg Brenneman Copy Share Image
The idea of eternal return is a mysterious one, and Nietzsche has often perplexed other philosophers with it: to think that everything… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Several of my books are 'How to' guides, specifically about getting outdoors, giving kids and parents ideas for what to do in… — Steve Backshall Copy Share Image
As someone who's been doing a lot of classical theater recently, I loved the idea of getting to run around in Steven… — Lily Rabe Copy Share Image
![“I played a couple of ideas and then had this unusual texture underneath which was like this little granulated kind of pipe organ almost like a scratchy record which he started [inaudible] brilliantly. "Oh I love that song." And when things go fine, it's good. So he started loving that song and…” quote by A. R. Rahman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/824/a-r-rahman-4481_couple_i-played-a-couple-of-ideas-and-then-had_282296.jpg)
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