African Quote by Paul Robeson

The idea of African brotherhood is often just a cover-up for laziness. We must see what is achievable in our circumstances and evaluate all…

— Benjamin Mkapa

“Nothing can be reasonable or beautiful unless it’s made by one central idea, and the idea sets every detail.”

— Anonymous

Strategy is not a lengthy action plan. It is the evolution of a central idea through continually changing circumstances.

— Jack Welch

“With this approach, every message should have one central idea, application, insight, or principle that serves as the glue to hold the other parts…

— Andy Stanley

There is, as Emerson says, some central idea or conception of yourself by which all the facts of your life are arranged and classified.…

— Wallace D. Wattles

“This idea that in order to make a decision you need to focus on the consequences (which you can know) rather than the probability…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

We're always looking for the backbone, the central idea, and once you have that you know everything can circle around it.

— Adam McKay

Every garden scheme should have a backbone, a central idea beautifully phrased. Every wall, path, stone and flower should have its relationship to the…

— Edwin Lutyens

“You find in Krishna that non-attachment is the central idea.”

— Swami Vivekananda

You know, putting power in people's hands was the central idea of the conservative platform. And so, to me, the E.U. was the direct…

— Steve Hilton

The central idea in The Black Swan is that: rare events cannot be estimated from empirical observation since they are rare.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“take Buddha. The central idea [is] sacrifice.”

— Swami Vivekananda