Famous Quotes & Sayings

Winona Ryder

My parents really instilled this idea in me of being your own person, almost to the extent that I couldn't do wrong. I'd get a bad grade and they'd be like, "No! What you did was great!"

Winston Churchill

Just as the sentence contains one idea in all its fullness, so the paragraph should embrace a distinct episode; and as sentences should follow one another in harmonious sequence, so paragraphs must fit into another like the automatic couplings of railway carriages.

Winston Churchill

Any idiot can see something wrong. But can you see what is right?

Winston Churchill

When one is in office one has no idea how damnable things can feel to the ordinary rank and file of the public.

Rhonda Byrne

When you have a pile of bills that you have no idea how you are going to pay, you cannot focus on the bills, because you will continue to attract more bills. You have to find a way that works for you to focus on prosperity, despite the bills around you.

Rick Warren

This drive to always want more is based on the misconceptions that having more will make me more happy, more important, and more secure, but all three ideas are untrue. Possessions only provide temporary happiness. Because things do not change, we eventually become bored with them and then want newer, bigger, better versions.

Trevor Dunn

I have no inflated ideas about success anyway.

Trent Reznor

If I come up with rules or limitations it focuses me in a direction. And those rules can change if you realize it's a dumb idea. You start to mutate it to see what fits best.

Veronica Roth

It's not that I ever sat down and outlined a trilogy, but I always have a sense of what size an idea is when I start it.

Veronica Roth

I know I belong in Dauntless because everything I did in that aptitude test told me so. I'm loyal to my faction for that reason -- because there's nowhere else I could possibly be. But her? And you?" She shakes her head. "I have no idea who you're loyal to. And I'm not going to pretend like everything's okay.

Veronica Roth

I don't really control the story. I just let it go where it wants to go. I have no idea what's going to happen in the end or who's going to live, so it's kind of like me saying, "I don't know, guys! Just wait." That's what I'm doing!

Vik Muniz

If you find an idea without form, please let me know because I would love to take a picture of it.

Vikram Seth

You can talk good ideas out of existence.

Robert G. Allen

Money is attracted to great ideas.

Robert Green Ingersoll

The ideas of right and wrong change with the experience of the race, and this change is wrought by the gradual ascertaining of consequences - of results.

Rudy Giuliani

Immigrants to America help us with the work they do. They challenge us with new ideas, and they give us perspective. This is still the nation that more people around the world want to come to than any place else. That has to tell us something about ourselves. If around the world this is the place people want to come to so much, maybe there's more here than many of us realize-and that many of us can take advantage of.

Samuel Johnson

No writer can be fully convicted of imitation except there is a concurrence of more resemblance than can be imagined to have happened by chance; as where the same ideas are conjoined without any natural series or necessary coherence, or where not only the thought but the words are copied.

Samuel Johnson

Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.

Samuel Johnson

The most Heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together.

Samuel Johnson

As any action or posture, long continued, will distort and disfigure the limbs, so the mind likewise is crippled and contracted by perpetual application to the same set of ideas.

Samuel Johnson

Words are but the signs of ideas.

Samantha Bond

I had absolutely no idea of the scale of its following and the globalness of 'Bond'.

Sam Walton

I probably have traveled and walked into more variety stores than anybody in America. I am just trying to get ideas, any kind of ideas that will help our company. Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.

Sam Claflin

I quite like the element of surprise, and as much as I have my ideas, I always appreciate ideas that come from other people as well, and I love the mystery of not knowing.

Sam Altman

The best ideas often look terrible at the beginning the truly good ideas, don't seem like they're worth stealing.

Sam Altman

Great execution is at least 10 times more important and a 100 times harder than a good idea…

Sam Altman

You want an idea that not many other people are working on, and it's okay if it doesn't sound big at first.

Sam Altman

You want an idea that turns into a monopoly. But you can't get a monopoly, in a big market right away; too much competition for that.

Sam Altman

There's at least a hundred times more people with great ideas than people that are willing to put in the effort to execute them well.

Sam Altman

Ideas by themselves are not worth anything, only executing well is what creates value.

Sam Altman

There are exceptions of course, but most companies start with a great idea - not a pivot.

Sam Altman

Great execution towards a terrible idea will get you nowhere.

Sam Altman

... but the pendulum has swung way out of whack here. A bad idea is still bad, and the pivot happy world we're in today feels suboptimal.