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The idea of service to humanity, putting yourself in situations where people have much less than you do, puts life in perspective.
Anything is possible - even the most far-fetched idea can come to being through a series of seemingly small decisions and actions.
Flood your life with ideas from many sources. Creativity needs to be exercised like a muscle. If you don't use it, you'll lose it!
I love the idea of renaissance. If my career is like painting a canvas, I want to have as many different colors in there as I can.
Only in the books written in earlier times did she sometimes think she found some faint idea of what it might be like to be alive.
To escape the cycle of tragedy, we (searchers) have to be tough on the ideas of the planners, even while we salute their goodwill.
Hill and valley, seas and constellations, are but stereotypes of divine ideas appealing to and answered by the living soul of man.
My uncle developed the training philosophy. His idea of good tennis training is basically quite simple: you must try to gain time.
Nothing drives progress like the imagination. The idea precedes the deed. The only exceptions are accidents and natural selection.
An ability to embrace new ideas, routinely challenge old ones, and live with paradox will be the effective leader's premier trait.
When people feel safe, they can come up with ideas. It's important to listen to the actor who is there on the stage and living it.
The idea that a fashion photograph could make you cry doesn't happen. And I'm proud to say that my slideshows can make people cry.
I had the perfect accident for the perfect idea. I was rendered immobile where the only thing I could do is mess with my computer.
The illusion of life is crucial for the work, otherwise the ideas wouldn't be able to jump across, people wouldn't engage with it.
Idealism is based on big ideas. And, as anybody who has ever been asked "What's the big idea?" knows, most big ideas are bad ones.
I have always been very concerned that Darwinism gave the basic okay to terrible racism and to the idea of murder based upon race.
It is probably not a good idea to ask someone to expound a position they do not accept and do not feel they even fully understand.
I'm often asked, 'Where do you get your ideas?' ...It's like asking, 'Where do you find air to breathe?' Ideas are all around you.
The trouble with academics and commentators is that they care more about whether ideas are interesting than whether they are true.
I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought.
I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the way the character defines him.
Religion is a group of scam artists that sell the calming idea that your body is a temple of God, while your mind belongs to them.
It also is true that some ideas naturally work themselves out over a longer period of time than a single human life can encompass.
Friends and family will tell you why your ideas won't work. Most are left-brained employees and specialists and NOT entrepreneurs.
Intuition is perception via the unconscious that brings forth ideas, images, new possibilities and ways out of blocked situations.
On the higher plane the soul is sexless, and those who wish to rise higher than the physical plane must eliminate the idea of sex.
One of the things you learn very early in writing for television, especially, is that compressing the story is always a good idea.
I have to be asked, I guess, but I love the idea of marriage. I think it's beautiful. I'm such a romantic, and I always have been.
We always see the point of an iceberg. So I've always accepted the idea that people - they don't necessarily know everything I am.
I wrote a lot of software to do various kinds of special things, and I loved the idea of composing pieces in an electronic studio.
There is no cause half so sacred as the cause of the people. There is no idea so uplifting as the idea of the service of humanity.
The church is always trying to get other people to reform, it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example
A certain amount of contempt for the material employed to express an idea is indispensable to the purest realization of this idea.
Introverts like being introverts. We are drawn to ideas, we are passionate observers, and for us, solitude is rich and generative.
I'm much more into bad, trashy Belgian techno. I like that much more than rock bands. The whole idea of a rock band is so archaic.
What strikes me most about Best Buddies International is the simplicity and magnitude of the mission. Friendship is a simple idea.
I have no trouble publishing in Soviet astrophysical journals, but my work is unacceptable to the American astrophysical journals.
Not only are we here to protect the public from vicious criminals in the street but also to protect the public from harmful ideas.
American democracy is in grave danger from the changes in the environment in which ideas either live and spread or wither and die.
Ideas are cheap and abundant; what is of value is the effective placement of those ideas into situations that develop into action.
The ideas of the wise have been tested by centuries. Everything medium is lost and only original, deep and useful things are left.
The problem with copyright is it only protects that literal work. It doesn't protect the design and the ideas. That's unfortunate.
Examples of selling of ideas are portrayed in consulting or paid advice, as the pricing of intellectual property is market driven.
Instead of receiving the help that she had hoped for, Mr. Cain instead decided to provide her with his idea of a stimulus package.
The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.
The world of ideas is not revealed to us in one stroke; we must both permanently and unceasingly recreate it in our consciousness.
Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.
I learned about what I love. Imagination, deep friendship, animals, family, the natural world, ideas and ideals ... and silliness.
I do love the idea that something can make you forget that you're listening and just transport you to somewhere else in your head.
Revenge is a particularly interesting concept, especially the notion of whether or not it exists outside of just an abstract idea.