Quotes about id
ideas effort age
It often happens that the universal belief of one age, a belief from which no one was free or could be free without an extraordinary effort of genius or courage, becomes to a subsequent age, so palpable an absurdity, that the only difficulty is to imagine how such an idea could ever have appeared credible. John Stuart Mill
ideas religion want
God is a word to express, not our ideas, but the want of them.
ideas imperfect wells
I know tolerably well what Ireland was, but have a very imperfect idea of what Ireland is.
ideas clash adverse
Truth emerges from the clash of adverse ideas.
ideas ability
When one's ideas are not challenged, one's ability to defend them weakens.
ideas feelings together
The idea is essentially repulsive, of a society held together only by the relations and feelings arising out of pecuniary interest.
ideas support needs
... All ideas need to be heard, because each idea contains one aspect of the truth. By examining that aspect, we add to our own idea of the truth. Even ideas that have no truth in them whatsoever are useful because by disproving them, we add support to our own ideas.
ideas tree evolution
And I tell you one thing, if the primates that we came from, had know that someday politicians would come out of the gene pool, they would have stayed up in the trees and written evolution off as a bad idea. John Sheridan
ideas needs solutions
There is no need to search for global solutions, apart from an absolute necessity to destroy the idea that such things exist. John Ralston Saul
ideas mind unseen
What a glorious title, Nature, a veritable stroke of genius to have hit upon. It is more than a cosmos, more than a universe. It includes the seen as well as the unseen, the possible as well as the actual, Nature and Nature's God, mind and matter. I am lost in admiration of the effulgent blaze of ideas it calls forth. James Joseph Sylvester
ideas numbers spheres
Number, place, and combination . . . the three intersecting but distinct spheres of thought to which all mathematical ideas admit of being referred.
ideas rivers should
A mathematical idea should not be petrified in a formalised axiomatic setting, but should be considered instead as flowing as a river.
ideas jugs band
The Jug Band was exactly what I wanted to do, and it wasn't my idea. John Sebastian
ideas doors next
It's always better if you're next door. Ideas come up at the oddest times. They don't always come up in a conference call. John Scott
ideas want treats
If you want me to treat your ideas with more respect, get some better ideas. John Scalzi
ideas leader faces
The new leaders face new tests such as how to lead in this idea-intensive, interdependent network environment John Sculley
ideas ignorant-masses knowledgeable
If all ideas have to be bought, then you have an intellectually regressive system that will assure you have a highly knowledgeable elite and an ignorant mass. John Perry Barlow
ideas negativity demoralizing
While negativity is politically useful, it is also demoralizing unless it is accompanied - and to some extent overshadowed - by elevated and inspiring ideas about the American future. John Podhoretz
ideas groups matter
As a matter of policy, increasing taxes on the most economically productive group, which already generates 60 percent of the nation's federal revenues, during a sustained period of economic doldrums is a wretched idea.
ideas littles height
There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather. Martin Luther
ideas white movement
White lines in movement symbolize a unifying idea which flows through the compartmented units of life bringing the consciousness of a larger relativity. Mark Tobey
ideas acting transformation
The idea of transformation - playing something I'm not - is the bit I enjoy most about acting. Mark Strong
ideas long going-away
But anyway, I was convinced that it would go away, you know. But the idea was that he was sitting on a flight - you know, one of those sort of fairly long flights, like, sort of, you know, Newark to Denver or something like that - so, you know, a few hours. Nick Lowe
ideas numbers people
I like the idea of people getting to know you from different angles and then realizing "That guy is also that guy!" "Oh, he does that!" I really like having a number of different ways to reach people. Nick Kroll
ideas trying one-day
For me, I was literally trying to stay afloat. I never actually thought I would get my own sketch show. So the idea that one day I would have my own show is pretty wild. But once I got it, I thought, 'Yeah, this is exactly what I always wanted to do.
ideas people waiting
There's just a feeling, when you're just an actor - I have great admiration for people who are just actors. I don't understand it, the idea of waiting to get cast, being at the whim of others. I find it incredibly powerless and frightening, so that's why I've been constantly trying to create my own content.
ideas light people
You know, an idea is just an idea. There seems to... the kind of epiphanies that you have, like the little sudden bursts of light, they're very small and they're very short and it's the pursuit of the idea that's the important thing. . . . I know a lot of people who have way better ideas than I do that-much more frequently than I do that just can't sit down and actually do it. Ideas are such are a little overrated really; it's the work behind the idea that's the important thing. Nick Cave
ideas idle bad-ideas
All of our days are numbered. We cannot afford to be idle. To act on a bad idea is better than to not act at all, because the worth of an idea never becomes apparent until you do it.
ideas kind shame
To my undying shame, I do read reviews. I don't read them all, but I like to get some kind of idea how things are going.
ideas perspective events
An idea or an insight doesn't come from a single happening, it requires a meeting to alter a perspective. Often it takes a while for the events to collide, but when they do it is inevitable that a change will follow. Nick Bantock
ideas answers architecture
Where do architects and designers get their ideas? The answer, of course, is mainly from other architects and designers, so is it mere casuistry to distinguish between tradition and plagiarism? Nancy Banks Smith
ideas white giving
You know, when a president is about to leave office, most of the time most people are dying for him to go on and get out of there. But there are a few little rituals that have to be observed. One of them is that the president must host the incoming president in the White House, smile as if they love each other and give the American people the idea that democracy is peaceful and honourable and there will be a good transfer of power Nancy Gibbs
idols firefighter gaps
When I was younger, there was a huge gap between what I wanted to do and what I could do as an idol. Namie Amuro