Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kevin Mattson

From these activists we can learn a crucial lesson: without citizens creating the institutions necessary for facilitating the growth of public deliberation, democracy will be a meaningless term. Without political leaders articulating this idea and acting upon it, public life and citizenship will continue to stagnate.

Ken Livingstone

The idea that the GLC should be abolished at a stroke is ill though out, undemocratic and will cost the people of London dear.

Ken Robinson

The role of a creative leader is not to have all the ideas; it's to create a culture where everyone can have ideas and feel that they're valued.

Kathy Ireland

I feel I'm able to serve my customer by knowing what she or he wants. One of the ways I'm able to do this is through my website, and email: people give me great ideas, tell me what they want, what they don't want. It's really instrumental, and helps me stay in touch with people.

Margaret Chan

When you're dealing with new and emerging diseases, you have no idea and you can't predict in advance what would happen.

Margaret Cho

In the early '90s, there was such a limited idea of what you could see on TV.

Elizabeth Janeway

The greatest barrier to women's advance in the public world of action has been their acquiescence in the idea that they don't belong out there.

Eli Broad

Ideas, more than money, are really the currency for success.

B. C. Forbes

An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.

Ben Stein

I'm not a Mensa member. I have no idea where that rumor came from. I never have been, and I doubt if I ever will be.

Ashley Montagu

The idea of "race" represents one of the most dangerous myths of our time.

Brian Schweitzer

Good ideas are the backbone of good government.

Paul Watzlawick

This is the secret of propaganda: To totally saturate the person, whom the propaganda wants to lay hold of, with the ideas of the propaganda, without him even noticing that he is being saturated.

Rachel Caine

Well,” Naomi said cheerfully, “what’s the worst that can happen?” They were silent, considering that, because there were just so many possibilities. But in the end, it was a better idea than Facebook.

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.

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.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Conversation is interesting in proportion to the originality of the central ideas which serve as pivots and the fitness of the little facts and observations which are contributed by the talkers.

Philip Greenspun

If I'd had more time or been a better writer, I would have tried to put the same ideas and experiences into a novel. But I didn't so I slapped it up on the Web.

Peter Lawrence

Design is the term we use to describe both the process and the result of giving tangible form to human ideas. Design doesn't just contribute to the quality of life; design, in many ways, now constitutes the quality of life.

Terry Pratchett

The calendar of the Theocracy of Muntab counts down, not up. No-one knows why, but it might not be a good idea to hang around and find out.

Terry Pratchett

I like the idea of democracy. You have to have someone everyone distrusts,

Terry Gilliam

The whole point of animation to me is to tell a story, make a joke, express an idea. The technique itself doesn't really matter. Whatever works is the thing to use.

Terence McKenna

Certainly the central Platonic idea, which is the idea of the ideas, these archetypal forms which stand outside of time is one which is confirmed by the psychedelic experience.

Terence McKenna

I have nothing but scorn for all weird ideas other than my own.

Terence McKenna

I finally realized that this 'place' that I kept bursting into [on a psychedelic experience] was somebody's idea of a playpen.

Terence McKenna

Everything will come true in cyberspace. That's the whole idea. What cyberspace is, on one level, it's simply the human imagination vivified, hardwired.

Terence McKenna

No one yet understands the mysterious intelligence within plants or the implications of the idea that nature communicates in a basic chemical language that is unconscious but profound. We do not yet understand how hallucinogens transform the message in the unconscious into revelations beheld by the conscious mind.

Terence McKenna

What foods are, essentially, are idea-neutral drugs.

Terence McKenna

My idea of enlightenment is when ego and Tao are fused, and Tao is perceived as ego. Then everything happens with complete appropriateness.

Terence McKenna

Modernity is a desert, and we are jungle monkeys. And so new evolutionary selective pressures are coming to bear upon the human situation, new ideas are coming to the fore. Psilocybin is a selective filter for this. The wish to go to space is a selective filter for this. Just the wish to know your own mind is a selective filter for this.

Teju Cole

The shape the words end up taking are themselves the meaning of the words, they are retrospectively what we meant to say. There's no way of knowing this until you register it in visible form. But the other side of this is that you do have some idea of where you are going.

Ted Chiang

Brain damage is never a good idea, no matter what your friends say.