When you need an idea about how to do anything, get quiet and relaxed and think about what it is you need to know. Then the flow of ideas will come. ….

The idea, shared by many, that life is a vale of tears, is just as false as the idea shared by the great majority, the idea to which youth and health….

And you who wish to represent by words the form of man and all the aspects of his membrification, relinquish that idea. For the more minutely you des….

There's this idea that it's all natural, but everything's been staged to look natural. It is also an invention. It's just that my inventions are diff….

. . . the mind is desperate to fix the river {of events} in place: Possessed by ideas of the past, preoccupied with images of the future, it overlook….

I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing..

To one American family out of four, the idea of capitalism as a benign system of comfort , dignity , and personal advance is only a myth , or worse, ….

I hated the idea that I would be like my father. Which is one of the reasons I decided I didn't want to be a writer and wanted to be an actor instead….

How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure..

I created my foundation as a result of that and my website, and I try to shed some light on some very topical issues right now. The idea is to try to….

Those who wish, in the interest of morality, to reduce Leonardo, that inexhaustible source of creative power, to a neutral or sexless agency, have a ….

The power to destroy the world by the use of nuclear weapons is a power that cannot be used - we cannot accept the idea of such monstrous immorality..

If you can create an environment where people are invited to do their best work and the best ideas always win, then the project itself will win..

The wealthiest place on the planet is the graveyard, because in the graveyard we will find inventions that we were never ever exposed to, ideas, drea….

I don't ever like to feel myself in the position to demand of an actor that they trust I'm going to do something worthwhile. I feel a responsibility ….

The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to ….

The approach of intellect or noesis will forever be an effete and limited sort of thing by contrast with the vigor and color of gnosis; but in academ….

You did what you did out of love. I can't be mad at you over that. It was stupid, but that's how love is. Do you have any idea what I'd do for you? T….

The idea that we live in a post-modern culture is a myth. In fact a post-modern culture is an impossibility; it would be utterly unlivable. Nobody is….

Man positively needs general ideas and convictions that will give a meaning to his life and enable him to find a place for himself in the universe..

If we had a starting XI that no one could argue about it wouldn't say a lot for English football. We'd probably be on a downward spiral. It's good th….