Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.
~By Earl Nightingale ~
Let's trace the birth of an idea. It's born as rampant radicalism, then it becomes progressivism, then liberalism, then it becomes moderated conservative, outmoded, and gone.
~By Powell Clayton ~
In fact, I had the idea because of Peter Falk. I saw my dad watching a Peter Falk movie and something clicked in my head. I gotta go make a movie for Peter Falk and me.
~By Paul Reiser ~
Another principle is, the deepest affections of our hearts gather around some human form in which are incarnated the living thoughts and ideas of the passing age.
~By Matthew Simpson ~
I don't let myself get carried away by my own ideas - I abandon 19 out of 20 of them every day.
~By Gustav Mahler ~
If you write, one of the questions you're always trying to answer is, Where do you get your ideas? And, if you write, you know how pointless a question this is and how difficult it is to answer.
~By Lynn Abbey ~
Some of the ideas that come from the fringe of the far right are just so implausible that it is hard to take those ideas seriously.
~By John Conyers ~
The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.
~By Victor Hugo ~
The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship.
~By Henry Ellis ~
An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.
~By Booth Tarkington ~
Bosses are no more inevitable in state and local governments than dictators are in national governments. They will arise and prosper, nevertheless, if true believers of democracy - citizens devoted to the democratic ideals - do not constantly oppose them.
~By Charles Edison ~
A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas.
~By Paul Valery ~
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
~By Joseph Addison ~
Ideas are more powerful than people.
~By Jim DeMint ~
So when I made some money, I didn't have any idea how one handled such a situation because no one in our family ever had any money.
~By Jim Harrison ~
Straight-away the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God, and not only do I see distinct themes in my mind's eye, but they are clothed in the right forms, harmonies, and orchestration.
~By Johannes Brahms ~
I never could be a partisan leader - a man of one idea.
~By Joshua Chamberlain ~
Anne hated the idea of putting me down in front of the audience.
~By Jerry Stiller ~
Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
I have no idea what readership is of written editorials, but it doesn't come anywhere close to the readership of editorial cartoons.
~By Paul Conrad ~
It's not so much that I got that idea at some point, it came up naturally because of the improvisational nature of the story I was telling.
~By Chester Brown ~
In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.
~By Alan Watts ~
You have to check out 'March of the Penguins'. Penguins are the really ideal example of monogamy.
~By Rich Lowry ~
Perhaps one reason for the falling-off of belief in a continuance of conscious existence is to be found in the quality of life that most of us lead. There is not much in it with which, in any kind of reason, one can associate the idea of immortality.
~By Albert J. Nock ~
I'll think of the idea and then I'll write something down, then within that there will be a joke or two which is the original thing which I thought was funny.
~By David Cross ~
He who does not believe has no soul. He is empty. He has no ideals. He has nothing to live for. He has no sunshine, no light, no joy in life. He is a poor, poor man.
~By Robert Ley ~
My ideas are always better. We have an understanding in place.
~By Larry Wachowski ~
Well, it gives, certainly to my father, who is the one that suffered the most in our family, and understanding of how the ideals of a country are only as good as the people who give it flesh and blood.
~By George Takei ~
It seems to me that the idea traditionally defended of endeavoring to maintain existing ethnic balances simply doesn't work any more.
~By William F. Buckley, Jr. ~
Unfortunately, bureaucratic problems at the federal level are causing many other small Washington companies to be denied federal funding that would help transfer their ideas from their laboratories into our homes and hospitals.
~By Jay Inslee ~
You're trying to find new ideas in people. I always think to myself, what question I am least comfortable asking the person? And then I make sure I ask it early in the interview.
~By Chuck Klosterman ~
I didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful.
~By Annie Leibovitz ~
But I loved the theatre and I was just doing theatre 24/7 and kept dropping courses because I didn't have the time and the chancellor thought that wasn't a good idea after awhile.
~By Mandy Patinkin ~
Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.
~By Milton Friedman ~
A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon that foundation; it is the sentiment of love, the sense of fellowship which binds together all the sons of that territory.
~By Giuseppe Mazzini ~
Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each must hold it's own; if it doesn't, the thing collapses.
~By Arnold Newman ~
You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It's very real. It's very strong.
~By Bono ~
My boyfriend's idea of a lesson was to take me on a black diamond run in the middle of a hail storm and say, 'Go!' Ski patrol had to escort me to another lift to get me down the mountain. No, that wasn't humiliating, not at all.
~By Claudia Black ~
In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.
~By Charles Eames ~
Some of my ideas were shot down by Lucasfilm because they stepped on territory that has been reserved for the movies. I didn't have a problem with that.
~By Walter Jon Williams ~
There is no reasoning, no process of inference or comparison; there is no thinking about things, no putting two and two together; there are no ideas - the animal does not think of the box or of the food or of the act he is to perform.
~By Edward Thorndike ~
Plato stands for the union of truth and goodness in the supreme idea of God.
~By James M. Baldwin ~
Each member does whatever they want with the song and it totally changes it from whatever idea I hear around it. It turns it into a Sonic Youth song and completely away from it being a solo song.
~By Thurston Moore ~
Howard Hughes was this visionary who was obsessed with speed and flying like a god... I loved his idea of what filmmaking was.
~By Martin Scorsese ~
A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.
~By Marcel Proust ~
If I'm going to fly for more than twenty feet it's generally a good idea to get a stunt guy.
~By Joe Flanigan ~
I liked that idea. Someone who's trying to perform herself and not succeeding.
~By Maggie Gyllenhaal ~
Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.
~By Paul Rand ~
The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping.
~By Benjamin Britten ~
It slaps your dignity just right. I loved the idea of these proud, dignified black men, and I saw the older ones wounded, and it wounded me ten times as much because I couldn't stand seeing them hurt like this.
~By Quincy Jones ~
What tribes are, is a very simple concept that goes back 50 million years. It's about leading and connecting people and ideas. And it's something that people have wanted forever.
~By Seth Godin ~
I think the idea of the obstruction through the neutral zone and away from the puck was an excellent rule.
~By Mark Messier ~
That's my ideal day, time with my boys.
~By Kenny G ~
I'm an idealist without illusions.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice.
~By Irving Babbitt ~
Even such an obvious idea as to observe an animal with vertigo or to rotate an animal did not occur to him, in spite of the fact that he conducted numerous vertigo experiments with human subjects and made frequent use of animal experiments.
~By Robert Barany ~
Back when I was jamming with Axl and the guys they had boxes of cassettes with song ideas. How do you know which ones you like now when you have that many ideas.
~By Zakk Wylde ~
Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.
~By Laurence Sterne ~
A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting on.
~By William McFee ~
Just as the development of earth art and installation art stemmed from the idea of taking art out of the galleries, the basis of my involvement with public art is a continuation of wall drawings.
~By Sol LeWitt ~
Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts you from having to pay attention to the small things.
~By Bell Hooks ~
No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas.
~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
I mean, the whole idea of movies was it was special to go to see - you went to a movie theater to see something that was magical and amazing, in a very special location.
~By Bob Balaban ~
From slavery to segregation, we remember that America did not always live up to its ideals. In fact, we often fell far short of them. But we also learned that fundamental to our national character is the drive to live out the true meaning of our creed.
~By Bill Frist ~
Anyone determined to find another person or group inferior can always find whole lists of grounds that demonstrate inferiority because we are all inferior to the ideals of humanness we have erected.
~By Marilyn French ~
The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.
~By Alfred North Whitehead ~
It doesn't help to wait until something happens and then prosecute the offenders, especially if it's the idea of the offender to extinguish himself in the commission of the crime.
~By John Ashcroft ~
I put those people in place. I trusted them. I had no idea they would do anything like this.
~By Bernie Ebbers ~
For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
~By Carl Bernstein ~
All the good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.
~By Grant Wood ~
We'd be working in our motel room through the night, and I'd come up with an idea at two in the morning, and he'd start jumping up and down, pacing across the room, or whatever.
~By Arthur Hiller ~
If we have a great idea, we'll go, 'Oh, this could be a cool movie.' Or really for us, it's more like, 'Oh, this is a really bad idea. Let's do this. This seems really stupid.'
~By Trey Parker ~
Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.
~By Mikhail Bakunin ~
It can have its effect only through the intervention of God, inasmuch as in the ideas of God a monad rightly demands that God, in regulating the rest from the beginning of things, should have regard to itself.
~By Gottfried Leibniz ~
Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
~By Edward de Bono ~
Shows have been sold out. It's overwhelming, you know. I had no idea what to expect with this new sound and everything and just to see so many people just come out and embrace it, it's overwhelming.
~By Vanilla Ice ~
The idea of photographing an Arab man naked and having him simulate homosexual activity, and having an American GI woman in the photographs, is the end of society in their eyes.
~By Seymour Hersh ~
This marketplace where people can buy insurance who don't have it today - a competitive marketplace: That's an idea that both sides embrace.
~By David Axelrod ~
I have an idealistic view of science as a liberalising and progressive force for humanity.
~By Paul Nurse ~
I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes and ideals, without a thought of those of editors or publishers.
~By C. S. Forester ~
Kevin, as the whole cast is, just wonderful people and great people, and people who are attracted to this kind of material and accepting the idea of going to Newfoundland and knowing the kind of lack of amenities.
~By Lasse Hallstrom ~
I loved the idea of the Nerd as Hero, which Ghost World also had.
~By Illeana Douglas ~
The idea of reasoning with terrorists without force or with appeasement is naive, and I think it's dangerous.
~By George Allen ~
The Army has carried the American ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability.
~By Tom Lehrer ~
I hated the whole idea of being an actress. I used to throw up before every performance and cry afterward.
~By Judy Holliday ~
Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
~By Baruch Spinoza ~
It is nice to be around people who think differently than you. They challenge your ideas and keep you from being complacent.
~By Tucker Carlson ~
It was a bad idea, because I think that any government reorganization has to come in relatively small bites, or else you get indigestion.
~By Warren Rudman ~
I think one of the greatest enemies in the use of technology, however, is the idea that if you use the technology you have to throw other things out of the window.
~By John Eaton ~
American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.
~By Diane Ravitch ~
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
~By George Sand ~
I think that curiosity happened on these reviews where I was just a guest of the reviewer, because it introduced me to new cuisines and to the idea of cooking as a mechanism for studying other cultures and understanding other parts of the world.
~By Ted Allen ~
The older ideas are rendering more and more bland music.
~By Tom Jenkinson ~
It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
~By Randall Jarrell ~
You have to treat people gently because we're all in a process. What might seem like a good idea to somebody at 21 is probably not going to seem like a good idea at 50, but you don't know that until you get there.
~By Amy Grant ~
Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism.
~By Claude McKay ~
If God is One, and if there can be no other God, there can be no idea of God.
~By Leo Strauss ~
It was also my idea that the advisory committees of the Academy should replace the legal committees of the German Reichstag, which was gradually fading into the background in the Reich.
~By Hans Frank ~
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
I had no idea until I joined the games industry and met some of the power players, particularly those running large public companies, that much of this world is run by complete clowns.
~By Mike Wilson ~
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