Big Quote by Michael Ignatieff Download Open image “Intellectuals are good at seeing the big picture. But they are not so good at process.” — Michael Ignatieff ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Big Big picture Good Intellectuals Picture Process Seeing
Intellectuals are people who go to study things other people do naturally. — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
Intellectuals are people who manage the world in their head. They look at life and try to see some kind of truth, and if… — Yair Lapid Copy Share Image
Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Intellectuals are real and actuals who speak first to bare open and bring fore the burning matters factual before others can speak up and… — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
Intellectuals are not defined according to the jobs they do, but by the manner in which they act, the way they see themselves, and… — Frank Furedi Copy Share Image
Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values. — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
The "intellectuals" will always have problems, because they always need to "know." They're often the most spiritually bankrupt people, because they never let go;… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
You know, it's one thing about intellectuals, they prove that you can be absolutely brilliant and have no idea what's going on. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Good politicians need not be intellectuals, but they should have intellectual lives. — Gary Gutting Copy Share Image
Intellectuals range through the finest gradations of kind and quality: from those who are merely educated neurotics, usually with strong hidden reactionary tendencies, through… — Louise Bogan Copy Share Image
The Only cure for nihilism is for liberal democratic societies - their electorates, their judiciary, and their political leadership- to insist that force is… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
What really matters is getting new people in. The constitutional changes matter, but the thing that the party mustn't do is turn in on… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
The medium's gaze is brief, intense, and promiscuous. The shelf life of the moral causes it makes its own is brutally short. — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
Those with a gift for action, for their part, often express contempt for those whose gifts are more reflective. Men of action like to… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
There are lots of nations in the world or national peoples who don't yet have states. They're inside someone else's state and they want… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries. — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
Affirming belief that America is an exceptional nation has become a test of patriotism in American politics. — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
Both Iraq and Syria are a fissile mixture of ethnicities and religions thrown together after Versailles by departing French and British imperialists and only… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
The legitimacy of coercive acts in a democracy arises from the process by which they are justified and by the degree to which we… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
Some of our finest leaders were not intellectuals at all, and I admire them enormously because they weren't. Harry Truman wasn't. — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
If you get the access to see history happen, do you understand the history when it does happen? And the answer to that question… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
I have been a journalist, off and on, since I was 17. I was a copy boy for the 'New York Times,' when it… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
Many early-stage entrepreneurs make one simple mistake: Describing this 'big picture' in vague concepts and words. — Sunil Nagaraj Copy Share Image
I always say if you put someone from a small town into a big city for ten years, then when they go back, they'll… — Mike Colter Copy Share Image
My mom had very low expectations for me, and she really had a point. I was a big problem at seventeen. If I had… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
I have always been a big meta guy because I think the way journalism is practiced in Washington, and the way everyone sort of… — Mark Leibovich Copy Share Image
It's going to be used in the last days to get people to come against Christ, and that's the issue: they come against the… — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why… — Banks Copy Share Image
I turn a lot of stuff down - big, big movies, the kind I wouldn't want to go to the cinema to see. — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
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I was always attracted most to joining City, and I am pleased to be at such a good club with such a big ambition… — Edin Dzeko Copy Share Image