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Little minds think and talk about people. Average minds think and talk about things and actions. Great minds think and talk about ideas.
To be excited and at the same time satisfied; to desire and possess -that has been described somewhere as the wise man's idea of heaven.
I have lots of ideas and put pressure on myself to action them all. This can make life very busy so organisation can sometimes be crazy.
We have a two-party system: The Democratic Party, which is a party of no ideas, and the Republican Party, which is a party of bad ideas.
Romance is not an idea, but a moment. An unspoken glance when someone looks into your eyes and knows exactly who you are, what you need.
There is a satire that exists in 'My Arm,' but there is also an honoring of some of the stronger ideas that I've raided from visual art.
As soon as I stopped trying to think about a business idea and started focusing on what I’m passionate about, that’s when it came to me.
It was because of the success of the Super Soaker, I was able to at least get an audience with people to present some of my other ideas.
Me and Fred Wolf wrote the movie [ Grown Ups]. The whole idea was about putting together old friends that get to hang out for a weekend.
Let the living live; and you, gather together your thoughts, leave behind you a legacy of feeling and ideas; you will be most useful so.
Companies don't have ideas. Only people do. And what motivates people are the bonds of loyalty and trust they develop around each other.
I often find that having an idea in my head prevents me from doing something else. Working is therefore a way of getting rid of an idea.
I have found out one thing and that is, if you have an idea, and it is a good idea, if you only stick to it you will come out all right.
I was too much of a victim of the model I created. I tried Change to Win and helping Obama, and then I just ran out of Andy Stern ideas.
If the idea of revolution is to win out, it must be through political enlightenment. It is useless to try to impose it by force of arms.
Seeing my ideas come to reality. Seeing how happy it makes other people to wear them. Seeing them on other people makes me the happiest.
The idea that reincarnation means all beings eventually reach enlightenment is not true. Life does not have a fixed purpose. It just is.
I think a lot of the best ideas come from the grassroots; I'm someone who does not like a bunker mentality and does not like groupthink.
The idea of exploring character relations and their development over a decade has to be appealing for any actor who cherishes his craft.
The idea that when the health of one member suffers, the health of the whole body is lowered is a teaching of St Paul which is timeless.
It is important to expose yourself to ideas you don't agree with from time to time. Attend a political rally of a party you do not like.
Gear is the least important part of the equation. Having a vision and being able to articulate an idea visually are much more important.
TNC was once limited by the resources it could directly marshal to buy land. But teaching people a new idea is incredibly more scalable.
We must hang on to the idea that we can actually change things. That's the sort of environment that Joe finds himself in, in Young Adam.
Capital isn't that important in business. Experience isn't that important. You can get both of these things. What is important is ideas.
To think, it seems to me, is to hold an idea long enough to unlock and shape its power in the varied contexts of shared human knowledge.
Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.
When one steals a flying balloon and animates it to fly over Paris, one should, ideally, have some idea how said balloon normally works.
I have no idea why people want to watch puppets be the slightly meaner version of the weirdo holding them. It's beyond my comprehension.
I look upon youth in admiration and admire them for their curiosity about the world, their shape shifting, their ideas about the future.
In the past, most wars were motivated by the idea of nationhood. Today, however, wars are incited above all using religion as an excuse.
On the lower budget pictures, you go overtime more, you're sort of scrambling for the shots and cobbling together more ideas at the end.
The idea is that it will tell you where the importance lies, because it will be able to show you what impacts you in your everyday life.
It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas
We used to send up the idea of getting to the top. John would shout, "Where are we going, fellas?" We'd shout back, "To the top, Johnny!
[In politics] when A goes after B and there's a C, and D and a Q all lined up there, you have no idea who's going to be the beneficiary.
You have no idea how much the last few days have meant to me," I began. "Meeting you has been the best thing that's ever happened to me.
A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.
Truth cannot be sacrificed at the altar of pretended tolerance. Real tolerance is deference to all ideas, not indifference to the truth.
The whole idea of comparing climbers is ludicrous. It would be like sitting Van Gogh down with Rembrandt and saying, Ready, get set, go.
Many of us had this idea of doing independent film, of making personal, relevant films, as opposed to Hollywood fluff. I directed a few.
Copying isn’t particularly creative work. Being inspired by someone else’s idea to produce something new and different IS creative work.
The societies of consumption and squandering of material resources are incompatible with the idea of economic growth and a clean planet.
The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.
The idea that you make an experience that requires a conversation in a public place is training for the fact that culture is collective.
The idea of having to conform to someone else's ideal is unacceptable. I'm gonna be me. And if I can't be me, then I'd rather not do it.
All the political parties alike have their origins in past ideas and not in new ideas and none more conspicuously so than the Marxists .
I don't talk to old people; they try to find ways to stay static. Young folks are the ones with the ideas and constantly moving forward.
Nanny's philosophy of life was to do what seemed like a good idea at the time, and do it as hard as possible. It had never let her down.