Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sanjeev Bhaskar

'The Kumars'... played on five continents, and even when I came up with the idea, I was slightly surprised that no one else had.

Samuel Johnson

Forgetfulness is necessary to remembrance. Ideas are retained by renovation of that impression which time is always wearing away,and which new images are striving to obliterate. If useless thoughts could be expelled from the mind, all the valuable parts of our knowledge would more frequently recur, and every recurrence would reinstate them in their former place.

Samuel Johnson

I wish there were some cure, like the lover's leap, for all heads of which some single idea has obtained an unreasonable and irregular possession.

Wallace Stevens

All of our ideas come from the natural world: trees equal umbrellas.

Vivek Wadhwa

You need to be able to SHARE IDEAS, INSPIRE and MOTIVATE

William Hull

One problem with ideas, however valid, is that they are static and impersonal, whereas a person is active and dynamic.

William Howard Taft

The diplomacy of the present administration has sought to respond to the modern idea of commercial intercourse. This policy has been characterized as substituting dollars for bullets.

Will Wright

And so from that, I've always been fascinated with the idea that complexity can come out of such simplicity.

Willa Cather

She had certain thoughts which were like companions, ideas which were like older and wiser friends.

Will Smith

Just stay ready. Stay in shape and then you don't have to rush to train before the movie starts. I'll show you my abs later because I’m in shape. But that idea, if you stay ready, you don’t have to get ready.

Warren Ellis

There's one hole in every revolution, large or small. And it's one word long— PEOPLE. No matter how big the idea they all stand under, people are small and weak and cheap and frightened. It's people that kill every revolution.

Warren Buffett

Working with people who cause your stomach to churn seems much like marrying for money - probably a bad idea under any circumstances, but absolute madness if you are already rich.

Warren Buffett

Investment ideas, like women are often more exciting than punctual.

Warren Buffett

My idea of a group decision is to look in the mirror.

Warren Buffett

I have no idea on timing. It’s easier to tell what will happen than when it will happen. I would say that what is going on in terms of trade policy is going to have very important consequences.

Vivienne Westwood

What changed our lives forever was when Malcolm had the idea to sell rock 'n roll records to trendy customers.

Vivienne Westwood

The whole basis of my work is analysing what I do and building some sort of intellectual framework. The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas. They are the only subversion.

Vivienne Westwood

The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas.

Vivienne Westwood

Sometimes you need to transport your idea to an empty landscape and then populate it with fantastic looking people.

Vincent Van Gogh

But what's your ultimate goal, you'll say. That goal will become clearer, will take shape slowly and surely, as the croquis becomes a sketch and the sketch a painting, as one works more seriously, as one digs deeper into the originally vague idea, the first fugitive, passing thought, unless it becomes firm.

Vincent Van Gogh

Ideas for work are coming to me in abundance...I'm going like a painting-locomotive.

Vincent Van Gogh

I'm now painting with all the elan of a Marseillais eating soup, which won't surprise you when I tell you I'm painting large sunflowers. The idea? To decorate the studio, now there's hope of Gauguin living here. I aim at a dozen panels of sunflowers in the room I've set aside for Gauguin....

Vladimir Lenin

The Bolshevik slogans and ideas on the whole have been confirmed by history; but concretely things have worked out differently; they are more original, more peculiar, more varied than anyone could have expected.

Vladimir Lenin

Materialism is the recognition of "objects in themselves", or outside the mind; ideas and sensations are copies of images of those objects.

I often read nonfiction, and some of my ideas begin there.

Wayne Dyer

Ego is simply an idea of who you are that you carry around with you.

Walter Benjamin

The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe

Virginia Woolf

Unless you catch ideas on the wing and nail them down, you will soon cease to have any.

William Bernbach

Adapt your techniques to an idea, not an idea to your techniques.

William Blake

Without minute neatness of execution, the sublime cannot exist! Grandeur of ideas is founded on precision of ideas.

Werner Heisenberg

In general, scientific progress calls for no more than the absorption and elaboration of new ideas- and this is a call most scientists are happy to heed.

Werner Heisenberg

The basic idea is to shove all fundamental difficulties onto the neutron and to do quantum mechanics in the nucleus.

Werner Heisenberg

The structure underlying the phenomena is not given by material objects like the atoms of Democritus but by the form that determines the material objects. The Ideas are more fundamental than the objects.