Ideas Quotes

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A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist without… — Franklin Pierce
At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You… — Cesare Pavese
We need to move beyond the idea that an education is something provided for us, and toward the idea that an education is something that… — Stephen Downes
Somewhere in, I think, the back of the mind of some [education] policy makers is this idea that if we fine-tune it well enough, if… — Ken Robinson
I join you therefore in branding as cowardly the idea that the human mind is incapable of further advances. — Thomas Jefferson
I believe that the teacher's place and work in the school is to be interpreted from this same basis. The teacher is not in the… — John Dewey
The real difficulty is that people have no idea of what education truly is. We assess the value of education in the same manner as… — Mahatma Gandhi
One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it. — Elizabeth Bowen
The only chance for victory over the brainwash is the right of every man to have his ideas judged one at a time. You never… — Ezra Pound
The power to destroy the world by the use of nuclear weapons is a power that cannot be used-we cannot accept the idea of such… — Linus Pauling
We don't want to push our ideas on to customers, we simply want to make what they want. — Laura Ashley
We've had three big ideas at Amazon that we've stuck with for 18 years, and thy're the reason we're successful: Put the customer first. Invent.… — Jeff Bezos
Develop a respect and reverence for the principle of variation: the idea that the message ain't in the mean, the mode or the median -… — Tom Peters
Companies cannot really see beyond their current customer base. They explicitly or implicitly do things to protect their current customers. And the last person to… — Nicholas Negroponte
An idea will infect another with its own emotional interest when they have become both associated together into any sort of a mental total. — William James
If, then, you wish to insure the interest of your pupils, there is only one way to do it; and that is to make certain… — William James
Volition . . . takes place only when there are a number of conflicting systems of ideas, and depends on our having a complex field… — William James
You perceive now, my friends, what your general or abstract duty is as teachers. Although you have to generate in your pupils a large stock… — William James
Our volitional habits depend, then, first, on what the stock of ideas is which we have; and, second, on the habitual coupling of the several… — William James
The creative person wants to be a know-it-all. He wants to know about all kinds of things-ancient history, nineteenth century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, hog… — Carl Ally
You build your program from the ideas of great coaches. — Don Meyer
Writing a manual forces you to place your thoughts and ideas down on paper. — Tara VanDerveer
I can't say that I was my happiest on court, but I felt completely free. Free from family obligations, free from my own torment. In… — Jimmy Connors
Teamwork is really a form of trust. It's what happens when you surrender the mistaken idea that you can go it alone and realize that… — Pat Summitt
I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women's movement is saying that… — Adrienne Rich

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