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First you give life and action and guidance to ideas, then they take on power of their own and sweep aside all opposition.
Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.
The idea of a teenage Dumbledore was simply odd, like trying to imagine a stupid Hermione or a friendly Blast-Ended Skrewt.
To perfect your nature doesn't mean to have some idea of what a perfect person is and to simply be that. That doesn't work.
Without being in constant exchange with the rest of the cosmos, you cannot exist. The idea of individuality is an illusion.
It's really not enough to just have black women. A really good idea could be to comment on how they are treated by society.
The entrepreneurs that really make it are the ones that start with an idea but are ready to change it at a moment's notice.
It's very important who the president of the United States is. America is a great idea, so that's why it's a great country.
The studio's a collaborative environment. I just try to let people bring their own ideas to the songs and see what happens.
And if you feel that everyone has rejected you and your ideas let me tell you this, you are most assuredly in good company.
In the jungle of ideas, it is hard to find the true direction! The paths of the wrong ideas often seem to be very alluring!
If we want to enlighten people or give them new thoughts and ideas, we have to be willing to do the work of educating them.
When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it
Freedom of the press is perhaps the freedom that has suffered the most from the gradual degradation of the idea of liberty.
I've come to a wonderful realization that is fascinating: I have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to love. No one does!
To give you an idea how bad the American economy is, Mexico is now calling for a fence along the border. Stay on your side!
We have the divinity of our great misery. And our solitude, with its toilsome ideas, tears and laughter, is fatally divine.
It's amazing that a man who is dead can talk to people through these pages. As long as this books survives, his ideas live.
Beautiful thoughts hardly bring us to God until they are acted upon. No one can have a true idea of right until he does it.
If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.
I love the idea of doing totally different types of guys for different projects. I love that I get to do this. It's so fun.
All good leaders listen to their people and empower them to go away and turn any innovative ideas they have into a reality.
I think that everything is part of creativity - the more you create, the more you have ideas, and the more you meet people.
The idea that money is corrupting innocent politicians would be laughable if it did not lead to such dangerous legislation.
Personal experience, therefore, is everything in Zen. No ideas are intelligible to those who have no backing of experience.
It's a poor bureaucrat who can't stall a good idea until even its sponsor is relieved to see it dead and officially buried.
I don't really cook meat. I eat a bit of seafood but I'm not really into meat and the idea of cooking it is pretty intense.
Socrates, in Plato, formulates ideas of order: the Iliad, like Shakespeare, knows that a violent disorder is a great order.
The play is a very simple idea really; someone needs some support and consolation, and she finds a place where she gets it.
My goal is to create a therapy of ideas, to try to bring in new ideas so that we can see the same old problems differently.
Obviously when a new manager comes in, he's got to instill his own ideas within the team and with his set-up for the games.
Race is always tossed into the mix. The unspoken idea is always that white people have a right to carry guns and bear arms.
I don't think you can get an idea of what Israel is like until you get here. People don't realize what a great place it is.
There are deserts in every life, and the desert must be depicted if we are to give a fair and complete idea of the country.
Every time a man puts a new idea across, he faces a dozen men who thought of it before he did. But they only thought of it.
The moment of finding a fellow-creature is often as full of mingled doubt and exultation, as the moment of finding an idea.
I had a naïve idea that if I could tell the story, people would be outraged and do something about conditions in the jails.
Christianity would be helpless without the idea of freewill and the idea of freewill would be helpless without incongruity.
The idea of abolishing Income Tax is to me highly attractive, both on other grounds and because it tends to public economy.
What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.
Some men have no idea how to romance a woman. However, women who teach their husbands what they like will be well-rewarded.
The idea of 10 dimensions might sound exciting, but they would cause real problems if you forget where you parked your car.
The ideas I had about supernatural beings came to me the same way that my mathematical ideas did. So I took them seriously.
Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.
[Dissidents] groups would benefit enormously from learning about Ho Chi Minh's ideas on how to defeat a more popular enemy.
The central idea in The Black Swan is that: rare events cannot be estimated from empirical observation since they are rare.
The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom.
I like the idea of reading into people's faces when they're not emoting. Some people are fascinated, some are sympathizing.
There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.
I have a side of me that doesn't care. I really enjoy physical comedy, thinking of an idea and pitching it to the director.