Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joseph Priestley

Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing.

Joseph Murphy

Once the subconscious mind accepts an idea, it begins to execute it.

Joseph Goebbels

This is the secret of propaganda: Those who are to be persuaded by it should be completely immersed in the ideas of the propaganda, without ever noticing that they are being immersed in it.

Julian Schnabel

I have a completely romantic idea about making paintings, I guess.

Juliana Hatfield

I never felt happy with the idea that part of what I do is to be an object to be looked at. I thought of my public persona as an entity separate to myself.

Jules Renard

A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea.

Joshua Jackson

Maybe it's due to my west coast liberal upbringing, but, the idea of parallel universes doesn't strike me as being too far out there.

Karl Barth

There is a notion that complete impartiality is the most fitting and indeed the normal disposition for true exegesis , because it guarantees complete absence of prejudice. For a short time, around 1910, this idea threatened to achieve almost a canonical status in Protestant theology. But now, we can quite calmly describe it as merely comical.

Karl Kraus

You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.

Karl Kraus

Ideas are transplanted by splitting, thoughts by sprouting.

Karl Kraus

It so often happened to me that someone who shared my opinion kept the larger share for himself that I am now forewarned and offer people only ideas.

Karl Kraus

To have no ideas and being able to express them is the essence of journalism.

Karl Kraus

I have drawn from the well of language many a thought which I do not have and which I could not put into words.

Karl Lagerfeld

I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard.

Karl Lagerfeld

A collection is not just one basic idea. It comes from something that is in the air, something you suddenly like and put down on paper and then work out.

Karl Lagerfeld

Sometimes it's easy to have ideas, but somebody has to find a way to do it. Often those responsible for finding a way don't have the idea.

Kacey Musgraves

The idea of massive amounts of fame-having my face on Walgreens end-caps and pizza boxes-I don't fantasize about that. I'm happy with just being a songwriter. I'd rather have smaller numbers [of fans] that are really into what I'm doing than a massive amount of people that don't really know what I'm about.

Julius Genachowski

What is interesting to me is to find ways to work with early-stage innovators to build from the edge and work on tomorrows ideas.

Oswald Mosley

Ideas in a void have never appealed to me; action must follow thought or political life is meaningless.

Kanye West

I'm never at my worst because even at my lowest, its a learning experience. It's something that I'll bounce ideas off. I can take negatives and flip them to positives at all times.

Kanye West

Fusion is the future. The mixing of ideas. The two lunch tables working together. Humanity...we're 1 people.

Kanye West

The idea of Kanye and vanity are like, synonymous. But I've put myself in a lot of places where a vain person wouldn't put themselves in. Like what's vanity about wearing a kilt?

Kanye West

We are the creatives with teeth. We know ideas are more important than our personal wellbeing.

Julian Huxley

Darwinism removed the whole idea of God as the creator from the sphere of rational discussion.

Julian Huxley

Sir Julian Huxley, one of the world's leading evolutionists, head of UNESCO, descendant of Thomas Huxley - Darwin's bulldog - said on a talk show, 'I suppose the reason we leaped at The Origin of Species was because the idea of God interfered with our sexual mores.'.

Judy Holliday

I hated the whole idea of being an actress. I used to throw up before every performance and cry afterward.

Paul Conrad

I have no idea what readership is of written editorials, but it doesn't come anywhere close to the readership of editorial cartoons.

Paul Conrad

I've never seen bad drawing destroy a good idea. On the other hand, I've never seen a good drawing save a bad idea.

Paul Dirac

Renormalization is just a stop-gap procedure. There must be some fundamental change in our ideas, probably a change just as fundamental as the passage from Bohr's orbit theory to quantum mechanics. When you get a number turning out to be infinite which ought to be finite, you should admit that there is something wrong with your equations, and not hope that you can get a good theory just by doctoring up that number.

Patrick Dixon

The paradox of innovation is this: CEO's often complain about lack of innovation, while workers often say leaders are hostile to new ideas.

Justin Sane

From a very young age, militarism and trying to solve the world's problems through militarism is something that has always resonated with me as being a bad idea.

George MacDonald

Not even nothingness preceded life. Nothingness owes its very idea to existence.

Jonathan Ive

What I love about the creative process, and this may sound naive, but it is this idea that one day there is no idea, and no solution, but the next day there is an idea. I find that incredibly exciting and conceptually actually remarkable.