Famous Quotes & Sayings

Theodore Zeldin

The Renaissance… was based on a new idea of the importance of the individual. But this was a fragile foundation, because individuals depended on constant applause and admiration to sustain them. There is a shortage of applause in the world, and there is not enough respect to go around.

Theodore Zeldin

All invention and progress comes from finding a link between two ideas that have never met.

Thaksin Shinawatra

I am never one to disappoint. When I decided to invest I decided to bring the club forward. I am ready bring new ideas, vision and investment to the club.

Terry Pratchett

The phrase "may you live in interesting times" is the lowest in a trilogy of Chinese curses that continue "may you come to the attention of those in authority" and finish with "may the gods give you everything you ask for." I have no idea about its authenticity.

Terry Pratchett

Noble dragons don't have friends. The nearest they can get to the idea is an enemy who is still alive.

Terry Pratchett

It's vital to remember who you really are. It's very important. It isn't a good idea to rely on other people or things to do it for you, you see. They always get it wrong.

Terry Pratchett

A witch who is bored might do ANYTHING. People said things like 'we had to make our own amusements in those days' as if this signified some kind of moral worth, and perhaps it did, but the last thing you wanted a witch to do was get bored and start making her own amusements, because witches sometimes had famously erratic ideas about what was amusing.

Margaret Sanger

Many people are horrified at the idea of birth control. . . . It is simply the keynote of a new moral program.

Margaret Heffernan

Companies don't have ideas. Only people do.

Margaret Heffernan

Most people have their best ideas when they take their minds away from problems they're trying to solve.

Margaret Heffernan

For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.

Margaret Halsey

this year's blasphemy is next year's liberating truth ...

Margaret J. Wheatley

Life now insists that we encounter groundlessness. Systems and ideas that seemed reliable and solid dissolve at an increasing rate. People who asked for our trust betray or abandon us. Strategies that worked suddenly don't. Groundlessness is a frightening place, at least at first, but as the old culture turns to mush, we would feel stronger if we stopped searching for ground, if we sought only to locate ourselves in the present and do our work from here.

Marcus Brigstocke

I stumbled on a joke idea and style that worked, the audience went with it and, from that moment on, I was hooked. It's an amazing feeling.

Marcus Buckingham

No idea will work if people don't trust your intentions toward them.

Kevin Systrom

If you've got an idea, start today. There's no better time than now to get going.

Michael Fassbender

[As an actor] I have ideas, but things should always be fluid. You should always be ready to follow an instinct. Something might reveal itself on the day.

Michael Fassbender

I love to go into a movie and have no idea what's going to happen in it.

Michael Bell

The more ideas one is free to explore, the more likely a truly creative idea can emerge.

Michael Behe

I find the idea of common descent (that all organisms share a common ancestor) fairly convincing, and have no particular reason to doubt it.

Michael Bloomberg

There is no accountability today... no willingness to focus on big ideas.

Michael Bloomberg

Entrepreneurship is having an idea to do something great and not entirely have a plan on how to do it but the drive and will power to make it work

Melissa Rosenberg

Directing doesn't appeal to me. I'm much more in the world of ideas.

Megan Fox

If you eat Chinese food, your farts come out like Chinese food. If you eat Mexican food, your farts come out like Mexican food. And milk, it’s like—you can smell the warmth in the fart. My wardrobe on Transformers always smells like farts, and I have no idea why.

Matt Mullenweg

I don't have big ideas. I sometimes have small ideas, which seem to work out.

Maria Montessori

The concept of an education centered upon the care of the living being alters all previous ideas. Resting no longer on a curriculum, or a timetable, education must conform to the facts of human life.

P. J. O'Rourke

The key ingredient of politics is the idea that all of society's ills can be cured politically. It's like a cookbook where the recipe for everything is to fry it. The fruit cocktail is fried.

John Stuart Mill

I know tolerably well what Ireland was, but have a very imperfect idea of what Ireland is.

John Stuart Mill

When one's ideas are not challenged, one's ability to defend them weakens.

John Ralston Saul

There is no need to search for global solutions, apart from an absolute necessity to destroy the idea that such things exist.

John Scott

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.

Peter Drucker

Nobody can predict the future; the idea is to have a firm grasp of the present.

Nicolas Cage

You often feel like you are on a high wire with no net productions because you have to rely on spontaneity and come up with ideas on the spur of the moment - and then what happens is that there is electricity to it that gets caught.