Ideal Quotes

1406 Ideal quotes by 1036 unique authors

Creativity is not enough... the skill of the true artist is to show the real in the light of the ideal and so transfigure it. — Roger Scruton
Introverts living under the Extroversion Ideal are like women in a man's world, discounted because of a trait that goes to the core of who… — Susan Cain
When one lives with problems of importance, the prostitute is ideal. You pay, and whether or not you fail is of no importance. She doesn't… — Alberto Giacometti
Watercolour could have been used more by the modernists. It is so direct, and when the white paper convention is accepted, so powerful, even brutal,… — David Milne
Parents are not the all-knowing, ideal people we would like you to think we are. We've made wrong choices before, and will again, like everyone… — John McCain
Without going to what I think is my limit. I always say that my ideal is to get pole with the minimum effort, and to… — Alain Prost
Art is not and never has been subordinate to moral values. Moral values are social values; aesthetic values are human values. Morality seeks to restrain… — Herbert Read
I unconsciously decided that, even if it wasn't an ideal world, it should be. So I painted only the ideal aspects of it - pictures… — Norman Rockwell
Ideals are very often formed in the effort to escape from the hard task of dealing with facts, which is the function of science and… — William Graham Sumner
Two weeks is about the ideal length of time to retire. — Alex Comfort
Perhaps the ideal life is that of the week-end artist, who preserves the integrity of his own aesthetic ideals because of his economic independence... If… — Walter J. Phillips
About five years ago, the courses we run in the Field Trials were 52 percent timber. The hawks live in trees, and the quail nest… — Rick Carlisle
If the players go Christmas shopping, it's not ideal preparation. It may sound silly, but having to fight off the crowds in a busy shopping… — Steve Coppell
All each ism does, in its revolt against the inadequacy of the previous one, is to thoroughly upset the order of terms of this ideal… — Jean Helion
We live in the age of "Everything Has Rights." Now, I'm not denying that the concept of rights is valid, but I wonder Â… whatever… — John Rosemond
If a man does not have an ideal and try to live up to it, then he becomes a mean, base and sordid creature, no… — Theodore Roosevelt
From the very beginning our people have markedly combined practical capacity for affairs with power of devotion to an ideal. The lack of either quality… — Theodore Roosevelt
Chi-Os were ideal partners for all occasions. They were discrete, desirable, tactful, polite, and fun... Every mom dreamed of her son coming home with a… — David Letterman
Let us show, not merely in great crises, but in every day of life, qualities of practical intelligence, of hardihood and endurance, and above all,… — Theodore Roosevelt
I have but one thought in my heart for the young folk of the Church and that is that they be happy. I know of… — David
I have this theory - that if we're told we're bad, then that's the only ideal we'll ever have. — Jewel
The ideal state is meekness, or humility, or the semi-invalid state of the old. Year after year I am becoming nobler and nobler. If I… — Charles Fort
The theologians have recognized that the ideal is the imitation of God. If we be a part of such an organic thing, this thing is… — Charles Fort
You remember my ideal cat has always a huge rat in its mouth, just going out of sight - though going out of sight in… — Emily Dickinson
The ideal set-up would be the story man, the director, and the layout man, as well as musician, operating as a sort of story unit.… — Walt Disney

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