Quotes about id
ideas two littles
You don't have a really good idea until you combine two little ideas. Twyla Tharp
ideas relief problem
I can't emphasize this idea enough. Getting involved with your collaborator's problems almost always distracts you from your own. That can be tempting. That can be a relief. But it usually leads to disaster. Twyla Tharp
ideas answers four
You only need one good reason to commit to an idea, not four hundred. But if you have four hundred reasons to say yes and one reason to say no, the answer is probably no. Twyla Tharp
ideas theory-of-evolution faults
A major fault, for example, is the fact that, along with the materialist principle, Darwin introduced into his theory of evolution reactionary Malthusian ideas. Trofim Lysenko
ideas democracy captives
Democracy is held captive, not just by money, but by ideas - the ideas that money buys. William Greider
ideas our-world violence
Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence. William Golding
ideas simplicity insight
The greatest ideas are the simplest. William Golding
identity made feels
Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity. Wilfred Burchett
ideas scripture progressive
But, when Scripture makes a clear distinction between the act of creation and the process of preservation, we cannot accept the idea of a progressive creation process. Walter Lang
idols makers
It is better to catch the idol-maker than to smash each idol. Walter Lippmann
ideas justice littles
True opinions can prevail only if the facts to which they refer are known; if they are not known, false ideas are just as effective as true ones, if not a little more effective. Walter Lippmann
ideas creative insecurity
Creative ideas come to the intuitive person who can face up to the insecurity of looking beyond the obvious. Walter Lippmann
ideas idols fruit
Whenever we accept an idea as authority instead of as instrument, an idol is set up. We worship the plough, and not the fruit. Walter Lippmann
ideas furniture eternity
Unless our ideas are questioned, they become part of the furniture of eternity. Walter Lippmann
ideas wonderful sensations
We are astonished at thought, but sensation is equally wonderful. Voltaire
ideas stomach spite
Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers. Voltaire
ideas new-ideas
Too often new ideas are studied and analyzed until they are suffocated. William Pollard
ideas track people
You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold. William Hurt
ideas migration facts
Spirit can go anywhere. In fact, it has to go places so it can change and emerge like in the migrations. That's the whole idea. William Least Heat-Moon
ideas facts persons
We never love anyone. Not really. We only love our idea of another person. It is some conception of our own that we love. We love ourselves, in fact. William Boyd
ideas stories needs
Longfellow has his popularity, in the main, because he tells his story or his idea so that one needs nothing but his verses to understand it. William Butler Yeats
ideas breakfast poet
Even when the poet seems most himself . . . he is never the bundle of accident and incoherence that sits down to breakfast; he has been reborn as an idea, something intended, complete. William Butler Yeats
ideas feelings return
...an idea is no more an even relatively constant thing than is a feeling or emotion or volitional process. There exist only changing and transient ideational processes; there are no permanent ideas that return again and disappear again. Wilhelm Wundt
ideas psychology analysis
The task of physiological psychology remains the same in the analysis of ideas that it was in the investigation of sensations: to act as mediator between the neighbouring sciences of physiology and psychology. Wilhelm Wundt
ideas heaven feelings
Map reconciles himself to almost any event, however trying, if it happens in the ordinary course of nature. It is the extraordinary alone that he rebels against. There is a moral idea associated with this feeling; for the extraordinary appears to be something like an injustice of heaven. Wilhelm von Humboldt
ideas welcome talent
Capital will always go where it’s welcome and stay where it’s well treated. Capital is not just money. It’s also talent and ideas. They, too, will go where they’re welcome and stay where they are well treated. Walter Wriston
ideas rising tides
The idea behind Reaganomics is this: a rising tide lifts all yachts. Walter F. Mondale
ideas excellence black
The idea of voluntary segregation went against every value I had been taught. What did being born black have to do with excellence? Walter Dean Myers
ideas issues way
One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another. Yo-Yo Ma
ideas sound clarity
Music is powered by ideas. If you don't have clarity of ideas, you're just communicating sheer sound. Yo-Yo Ma
ideas innovation together
But an innovation, to grow organically from within, has to be based on an intact tradition, so our idea is to bring together musicians who represent all these traditions, in workshops, festivals, and concerts, to see how we can connect with each other in music. Yo-Yo Ma
ideas long toy-guns
No Arab ruler will consider the peace process seriously so long as he is able to toy with the idea of achieving more by the way of violence. Yitzhak Rabin
ideas dancing house
The idea of dancing to bad house music is something I could never get behind. Win Butler