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We cannot see anything until we are possessed with the idea of it, take it into our heads,--and then we can hardly see anything else.
We should invest in people not ideas. A good idea is often destroyed by bad people and good people can always make a bad idea better.
Ideas by themselves cannot produce change of being; your effort must go in the right direction, and one must correspond to the other.
The idea that the UN system could provide real leadership on the great development challenges will strain credulity in some quarters.
The challenge is that the day before something is truly a breakthrough, it's a crazy idea. And crazy ideas are very risky to attempt.
I think there's so much about Rasta culture that's interesting. Just the idea of preaching one-ness, that we're all in this together.
The value of a problem is not so much coming up with the answer as in the ideas and attempted ideas it forces on the would be solver.
It seems to me that a great university ought to have room in it for men subscribing to every sort of idea that is currently prevalent
If you are truly on the left, if you reject ideas of power and hierarchy, what you want is equality. Otherwise, it won't work at all.
When I was born, there was a very isolated idea of what it meant to be a man or a woman, and you belonged to one gender or the other.
I've never liked the idea you have to be a certain age to be a pop star. I like the idea that anybody can enter, anybody can compete.
I can offer you my life, but it is a short life; I can offer you my heart, though I have no idea how many more beats it shall sustain
... scientific research is compounded of ... empirical procedures, general speculative ideas, and mathematical or abstract reasoning.
It's an old sailor's idea that every ship has a rope with one end made fast to her bows and the other held by the loved ones at home.
You want an idea that turns into a monopoly. But you can't get a monopoly, in a big market right away; too much competition for that.
There's something so scary about trying out new material and being completely comfortable jumping into the abyss with a comedic idea.
I don't think all of my ideas are good. It's almost easier when people are critical of you because it helps with the quality control.
I was technically a Valley Girl, even though I absolutely dreaded being called that. I really hated the idea that I was a Valley Girl
It seems to me that the idea traditionally defended of endeavoring to maintain existing ethnic balances simply doesn't work any more.
Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition... well, they are still radical ideas.
Type well used is invisible as type, just as the perfect talking voice is the unnoticed vehicle for the transmission of words, ideas.
... the notions category and functor were not formulated or put in print until the idea of a natural transformation was also at hand.
Don't judge people you don't know. You have no idea what they've been through, and you may waste an opportunity to make a new friend.
I am addicted to hockey now. I've seen it on TV, but to be there? I had no idea that white people were having so much fun without me.
What do I miss? Second-hand bookshops where I can find things I had no idea I wanted. AbeBooks helps, but it doesn't have that smell.
I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me.
We live in a society either scarred by scarcity or spoiled by luxury. We have no idea how much is enough. We don't know when to quit.
I categorically resist this idea that films are supposed to be autobiographical and the only stories you tell are about your own life.
Line is so versatile - you can do a fine, tight, closely observed description or simply put a line around an idea - like a cartoonist.
The pioneering spirit is less about thinking up new ideas, as ridding ourselves of dogmas and habits that hold us captive in thinking.
The idea of vaudeville clowns and court jesters is always to show the flaw, to point out what's not working and why it's not coherent.
The more men believe an idea to be true the greater the likelihood that the idea is mistaken. Those who are right usually stand alone.
At dinner time he would sit in a corner, concentrating; and suddenly they would say, 'Time to feed the cat,' as if it were their idea.
There are but few who have ideas and are, at the same time, capable of action. Ideas enlarge but stymie, action enlivens but confines.
Two fixed ideas can no more exist together in the moral world than two bodies can occupy one and the same place in the physical world.
Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.
This week I've travelled more than 15,000 miles from America to China to Burma to Australia. I have no idea what time it is right now.
I rejected the idea of 9/11 being exploited pornographically immediately after the tragedy, when no one else breathed a word about it.
I've always wanted to improve on the idea of living well, In moderation, wine is good for you - mentally, physically, and spiritually.
I'm thinking maybe letting the latches burn is the right idea. Let everything burn until there's nothing left but ashes and cool rain.
The idea of Utopia is mischievous as well as unrealistic. And dull, to boot. Man is born pushing and shoving as the sparks fly upward.
Today the earth is populated with billions of people desperately hoping to “get somewhere,” but having no idea of where they’re going.
I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
The idea of brotherhood re-dawns upon the world with a broader significance than the narrow association of members in a sect or creed.
People ... have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later you have to talk about each other's work.
Graffiti writers will never stop. They'll just evolve. It's interesting what ideas people come up with and how it all extends forward.
The idea of let's all share the pain equally, or let's freeze salaries altogether - it's ass-backwards. It's absolutely ass-backwards.
Many of our ideas of democracy, so much of our literature and philosophy and science can be traced back to roots right here in Athens.
I've never been one who enjoys maintaining the status quo. I'm always pushing for new ideas, whether it's in business or philanthropy.
As soon as you raise a thought and begin to form an idea of it, you ruin the reality itself, because you then attach yourself to form.