Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pete Wentz

You should be able to grab people with ideas.

Pervez Musharraf

Remember that mindsets can not be changed through force and coercion. No idea can ever be forcibly thrust upon any one.

Paulo Coelho

It's a good idea always to do something relaxing prior to making an important decision in your life.

Peter Mandelson

It's a very good idea that we have a third term Labour government led by Tony Blair for a full term.

Peter Matthiessen

In fiction, you have a rough idea what's coming up next - sometimes you even make a little outline - but in fact you don't know. Each day is a whole new - and for me, a very invigorating - experience.

Peter Lynch

Never invest in any idea you can't illustrate with a crayon

Questlove

And even though people like to furrow their brow like they suspect you're not being honest about yourself, the truth is that they worry that you're not serving their idea of you.

Quintilian

The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.

Quincy Jones

Everybody has their idiosyncrasies.

Quentin Tarantino

There is no other genre that deals with America better, in a subtextual way, than the Westerns being made in the different decades. The '50s Westerns very much put forth an Eisenhower idea of America, whereas the Westerns of the '70s were very cynical about America.

Quentin Tarantino

The good ideas will survive.

Prince Andrew

It's slightly complicated for people to grasp the idea of a head of state in human form.

Prince Andrew

It would not be a bad idea if bankers were to go and sit occasionally with politicians in their political surgeries, where they might get a sense of the injustice that some of the community feel about the banks.

Primo Levi

Did chemistry theorems exist? No: therefore you had to go further, not be satisfied with the quia, go back to the origins, to mathematics and physics. The origins of chemistry were ignoble, or at least equivocal: the dens of the alchemists, their abominable hodgepodge of ideas and language, their confessed interest in gold, their Levantine swindles typical of charlatans and magicians; instead, at the origin of physics lay the strenuous clarity of the West-Archimedes and Euclid.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

What is to be done about these literary people, who will never understand that painting is a craft and that the material side comes first? The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.

Phillip Lim

Since an early age, I’ve been intrigued by the idea of design evolution,

Mike Figgis

There's nothing quite like the idea of failing spectacularly to excite a film maker

Natsuo Kirino

I'm this superphilosophical kind of person. Stuck in a prison of abstract ideas and overpowering emotions, I have this personality that makes it really hard to survive.

Naveen Jain

How important is failure - yes, failure - to the health of a thriving, innovative business? So important that Ratan Tata, chairman of India's largest corporation, gives an annual award to the employee who comes up with the best idea that failed.

Nathaniel Branden

Freedom is still the most radical idea of all.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The ideas of people in general are not raised higher than the roofs of the houses. All their interests extend over the earth's surface in a layer of that thickness. The meeting-house steeple reaches out of their sphere.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nothing is more unaccountable than the spell that often lurks in a spoken word. A thought may be present to the mind, and two minds conscious of the same thought, but as long as it remains unspoken their familiar talk flows quietly over the hidden idea.

Mother Teresa

Once I asked my counsellor for advice about my vocation. I asked, 'How can I know if God is calling me and for what he is calling me?' He answered, 'You will know by your happiness. If you are happy with the idea that God calls you to serve him and your neighbour, this will be the proof of your vocation.'

We Americans love original ideas. But truly, there are already plenty of good ones out there, ours for the taking. If I were too proud to copy the ideas of others, I likely wouldnt have even a fraction of my current success.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Today many American corporations spend a great deal of money and time trying to increase the originality of their employees, hoping thereby to get a competitive edge in the marketplace. But such programs make no difference unless management also learns to recognize the valuable ideas among the many novel ones, and then finds ways of implementing them.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Produce as many ideas as possible. Try to produce unlikely ideas.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

For original ideas to come about, you have to let them percolate under the level of consciousness in a place where we have no way to make them obey our own desires or our own direction. Their random combinations are driven by forces we don't know about.

Mike Huckabee

Americans different in some maybe thoughts or emphasis still have the same ideas. They want a government that lets them be free, that leaves them alone, that doesn't interrupt and interfere with every aspect of their life, that lets them go to work and keep more of what they've worked hard to have.

Pearl S. Buck

The melting-pot idea is futile ... The brew in a melting pot is always boiling over.

Paula Radcliffe

From my training I can get a good idea of what I'm capable of.

Philip Gourevitch

What distinguishes genocide from murder, and even from acts of political murder that claim as many victims, is the intent. The crime is wanting to make a people extinct. The idea is the crime.

Philip Emeagwali

Because I am not formally trained in the medical sciences, I can bring in new ideas to AIDS research and the cross-fertilization of ideas from different fields could be a valuable contribution to finding the cure for AIDS.