Quotes about One Idea

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. Votes: 4

Adhesion to one idea is monomania; to few, slavery. Votes: 3

In art one idea is as good as another. Votes: 3

Great things are done by devotion to one idea. Votes: 3

It's hard to get people to focus on one idea. Votes: 3

All it takes is one idea to solve an impossible problem. Votes: 3

All interpretations of history are propaganda for one idea or another. Votes: 3

Most authors have one idea per book. Shakespeare had two per sentence. Votes: 3

I never could be a partisan leader - a man of one idea. Votes: 3

You know, interesting minds usually do hold more than one idea at a time. Votes: 3

He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong. Votes: 3

The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea Votes: 3

That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one. Votes: 3

Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else. Votes: 3

I had one idea that never changed in my mind—that you should use your wealth to help people. Votes: 3

What usually happens with me [is that] I start with one idea in mind and then something else happens. Votes: 3

The dangerous man is the one who has only one idea, because then he'll fight and die for it. Votes: 3

'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else. Votes: 3

As soon as everyone is on the bandwagon with one idea, a leader should be working on the next one. Votes: 3

I had one idea that never changed in my mind - that you should use your wealth to help people. Votes: 3

I've got one idea I want to do for a film and you know I just enjoy myself doing bits and pieces. Votes: 3

Men who have embraced one idea can live only by and for that idea. Beyond it, they have nothing but their memories. Votes: 3

The man with but one idea in his head is sure to exaggerate that to top-heaviness, and thus he loses his equilibrium. Votes: 3

Speed to fail should be every entrepreneur's motto. When you finally find the one idea that can't be killed, go with it. Votes: 3

We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind. Votes: 3

I said, ‘There’s one idea I’ve been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It’s Woodrow Wilson.’ Votes: 3

The characters in 'Be Near Me' come from a genuine place, a Britain that is more than one country and more than one ideal. Votes: 3

You refuse to listen. Because, like every other man, you can keep only one idea in your head at a time-usully the wrong one. Votes: 3

When I write on 'SNL,' I've found I'm most productive while collaborating and joking with friends and not being firmly attached to any one idea. Votes: 3

The dangerous man is the one who has only one idea, because then he'll fight and die for it.[As quoted in The New Yorker, April 25, 2011] Votes: 3

A party with one idea; but that is a noble idea ... the idea of equality - the equality of all men before human tribunals and human laws. Votes: 3

I only have one idea, that is WhatsApp, and I am going to continue to focus on that. I have no plans to build any other ideas. Votes: 3

An acting teacher once told me, 'Greet everything with yes... Even if you abandon one idea for another one, saying yes allows you to move forward.' Votes: 3

Yes, I know,' interrupted Puddleglum. 'And few return to the sunlit lands. You needn't say it again. You are a chap of one idea, aren't you? Votes: 3

An artist who is inspired is being obvious. He’s not making any decisions, he’s not weighing one idea against another. He’s accepting his first thoughts. Votes: 3

Cut in dressmaking is like grammar in language. A good design should be like a well made sentence and it should only express one idea at a time, Votes: 3

Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another. Votes: 3

People without clear vision are easily distracted, have a tendency to drift from one idea to another and often make foolish decisions that rob them of their dreams. Votes: 3

Philosophy is not one truth, but thousands of truths. You don't have to believe in just one thing. When you chose one idea, you close yourself to the rest. Votes: 3

What justifies a character singing one idea for 3 minutes on the screen? I get impatient and want the story to carry on. I don't get impatient in the theatre. Votes: 3

To be successful a person must attempt but one reform. By urging two, both are injured, as the average mind can grasp and assimilate but one idea at a time. Votes: 3

In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues. Votes: 3

Terrible wars have been fought where millions have died for one idea - freedom. And it seems that something that means so much to so many people would be worth having. Votes: 3

Symmetry, as wide or as narrow as you may define its meaning, is one idea by which man through the ages has tried to comprehend and create order, beauty and perfection. Votes: 3

My mother's one idea was to sacrifice her life to her children and she had done nothing else since the death of my father. We wished that she had married again instead. Votes: 3

Don't stop. Narrow your focus to one idea, and make it work. That will give birth to all of the others. All you can do is plant the seed and water it. Votes: 3

I have served one idea, marched under one banner - war against all imposed authority - against every kind of deprivation of freedom, in the name of the absolute independence of the individual. Votes: 3

We don't see very far in the future, we are very focused on one idea at a time, one problem at a time, and all these are incompatible with rationality as economic theory assumes it. Votes: 3

The thing I have learned through the years is that one idea 'doth' not a novel make. A novel must be several seemingly unrelated ideas that somehow magically come together to create the fabric of the story. Votes: 3

Everyone has the ability to be creative. Everyone has the ability to connect one idea with another, to find an idea in another department, organization, or industry, and connect it with another to solve the challenge at hand. Votes: 3

Jean Renoir once suggested that most true creators have only one idea and spend their lives reworking it, but then very rapidly he added that most people don't have any ideas at all, so one idea is pretty amazing. Votes: 3

We all have one idea of what the color blue is, but pressed to describe it specifically, there are so many ways: the ocean, lapis lazuli, the sky, someone's eyes. Our definitions are as different as we are ourselves. Votes: 3

Let me die fighting. Two years of physical suffering have taken from me twenty years of life. But the soul changes not, does it? It is there, the same madcap - Atman - mad upon one idea, intent and intense. Votes: 3

What happens with a lot of leaders is that their leadership style is like ADD; they are all over the place with different ideas. They could be driving one idea forward but then move on to something else too soon. Votes: 3

It's the business of movies, it's the fights that go along with the level of budget, and more than anything, it's the creative constipation of having to live with one idea for two or three years. It's just not that fun. Votes: 3

You've got to develop mental strength. And you develop mental strength with the will. The will is the mental faculty that gives you the ability to hold one idea under the screen of your mind to the exclusion of all outside distractions. Votes: 3

In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble. Votes: 3

Just as the sentence contains one idea in all its fullness, so the paragraph should embrace a distinct episode; and as sentences should follow one another in harmonious sequence, so paragraphs must fit into another like the automatic couplings of railway carriages. Votes: 3

Messi makes the difference most of the time. In particular, he is always going forwards. He never passes the ball backwards or sideways. He has only one idea, to run towards the goal.So as a football fan, just enjoy the show. Votes: 3

My normal lectures deal with the psychedelic experience as a generalized and historical phenomenon, but this effort at communication is slightly more personal in that it's an effort to impart [just] one idea that came out of an involvement with psychedelic substances. Votes: 3

For me, it's been liberating to put myself in the mind of a fictitious six year-old each day, and rediscover my own curiosity. I've been amazed at how one idea leads to others if I allow my mind to play and wander. Votes: 3

The idea of perfect closes your mind to new standards. When you drive hard toward one ideal, you miss opportunities and paths, not to mention hurting your confidence. Believe in your potential and then go out and explore it; don't limit it. Votes: 3

YI think what's cool about 'Scott Pilgrim' is that it shows that there is a superhero within all of us. There's not one ideal image of what a superhero looks like, and you don't really see that until the end of the film. Votes: 3

We still have to evolve, that's how we're created, we're created to evolve so you can believe in that the answer is in this book or in this one idea that the masses most believe in, each individual must evolve themselves, spiritually and consciously. Votes: 3

Because the beauty of the human body is that it hasn't a single muscle which doesn't serve its purpose; that there's not a line wasted; that every detail of it fits one idea, the idea of a man and the life of a man. Votes: 3

I can't marry myself to one idea or one form of doing politics or one form of understanding politics. I believe that we have to play the game of strategy, and understand how to move the pieces because this is how the political spectrum functions. Votes: 3

There is, indeed, nothing more annoying than to be, for instance, wealthy, of good family, nice-looking, fairly intelligent, and even good-natured, and yet to have no talents, no special faculty, no peculiarity even, not one idea of one's own, to be precisely "like other people. Votes: 3

If you happen to read fairy tales, you will observe that one idea runs from one end of them to the other--the idea that peace and happiness can only exist on some condition. This idea, which is the core of ethics, is the core of the nursery-tales. Votes: 3

In my mind, I'm doing everything, but in reality, I'm doing very, very little. You come up with one idea, one moment, one line that leads to something and you feel like it's easy. And then, you sit back and think there would be no show without that. Votes: 3

I believe that true beauty comes from inside you and that always shows through. I have no problem with whatever the next look is, whether it's big blonde hair and blue eyes or green hair and dark eyes. That's fine so long as there isn't just one ideal image. Votes: 3

The intellectual ... may live for ideas, as I have said, but something must prevent him from living for one idea, from becoming obsessive or grotesque. Although there have been zealots whom we may still regard as intellectuals, zealotry is a defect of the breed and not of the essence. Votes: 3

There is, however, only one idea of duty which has been universally accepted by all mankind, of all ages and sects and countries, and that has been summed up in a Sanskrit aphorism thus: "Do not injure any being; not injuring any being is virtue, injuring any being is sin." Votes: 3

Ideas any one can mould as he wishes. Votes: 2

Good ideas are often murdered by better ones. Votes: 2

Ideas percolate. Through natural selection, the best ones survive. Votes: 2

Ideas are one thing and what happens is another. Votes: 2

Ideas, like large rivers, never have just one source. Votes: 2

No one can resist the idea of a crippled genius. Votes: 2

One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas. Votes: 2

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. Votes: 2

Deciding which ideas to save and which ideas to discard is one of society's most important tasks. Votes: 2

An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself. Votes: 2

The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away. Votes: 2

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea. Votes: 2

Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique. Votes: 2

People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf. Votes: 2

Individual freedom is a Jewish idea, but it's one of the functions of Christianity to make this idea universal. Votes: 2

Do not be afraid to offer ideas that draw opposition. Remember, if no one is against your idea, then your idea probably doesn't do anything. Votes: 2

One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life. Votes: 2

In talking about the impact of ideas in one field on ideas in another field, one is always apt to make a fool of oneself. Votes: 2

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act. Votes: 2

One idea lights a thousand candles. Votes: 0

One cannot resist an idea whose time has come. Votes: 0

Just one great idea can completely revolutionize your life. Votes: 0

One man's idea of perfect order is another man's chaos. Votes: 0

There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking. Votes: 0

All good management is the expression of one great idea Votes: 0

A revolutionary idea is usually one with its sleeves rolled up. Votes: 0

No one can have an idea once he starts really listening. Votes: 0

One sound idea is all that you need to achieve success. Votes: 0

If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty. Votes: 0

One God idea is worth more than a thousand good ideas. Votes: 0

One does not adopt a new idea, one slips into it. Votes: 0

One good idea is all you need to start a fortune. Votes: 0

No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit. Votes: 0

An idea that no one believes can not be proved too often. Votes: 0

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it. Votes: 0

An idea does not pass from one language to another without change. Votes: 0

True success has more components than one sentence or idea can contain. Votes: 0

You have no idea what an appetite it gives one, being executed. Votes: 0

One generation's idea of fast pace might be different from a later generation's. Votes: 0

The American idea that everyone graduates high school at 18 is a good one. Votes: 0

Stereotypes are based on the idea that two heads are bigger than one. Votes: 0

The fact is one thing and the idea about the fact is another. Votes: 0

If you do not like an idea, challenge it with a better one! Votes: 0

An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man. Votes: 0

But logic is not all, one needs one's heart to follow an idea. Votes: 0

The idea of "race" represents one of the most dangerous myths of our time. Votes: 0

Realization consists of getting rid of the false idea that one is not realized. Votes: 0

My message is a peaceful one and I hope that the idea will spread. Votes: 0

Intellectually, the Republican idea deserves the tolerance and respect one gives to the dead. Votes: 0

The whole idea is to earn the flavor. No one gives it to you. Votes: 0

Aging is God's idea. It's one of the ways he keeps us headed homeward. Votes: 0

We all have great ideas. No one ever says, "I've got this terrible idea." Votes: 0

Congress will always couple one bad idea with another, the better to 'offset' them. Votes: 0

The idea of perfection always gives one a chance to talk without knowing facts. Votes: 0

To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should. Votes: 0

We do not possess an 'ego.' We are possessed by the idea of one. Votes: 0

I really loved the idea of playing opposite Marlon Brando and being the crazy one. Votes: 0

I think a good business book has one coherent idea that is richly played out. Votes: 0

Just one great idea can change your life dramatically. Look for it. It's there somewhere! Votes: 0

Marketers reinforce the idea - a false one - that celebrity is available to everyone. Votes: 0

An average idea enthusiastically embraced will go farther than a genius idea no one gets. Votes: 0

The great idea is the one that is either saleable or is worthy of imitation. Votes: 0

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. Votes: 0

I think my idea of retirement might be to one day work a 40-hour week. Votes: 0

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have. Votes: 0

One day, the idea that God loved me dropped from my head into my heart. Votes: 0

Making a film that is in seven days of one week is not a new idea. Votes: 0

I just don't understand why the idea of the universe creating itself is a rational one Votes: 0

A college education should equip one to entertain three things: a friend, an idea and oneself. Votes: 0

When you're feeling overwhelmed in business, one smart idea can beat the biggest Super Bowl ad. Votes: 0

It is easier to tone down a wild idea than to think up a new one. Votes: 0

The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people. Votes: 0

Truly, there is something to the idea that hero-worship is helpful, provided one worships a winner. Votes: 0

The idea of hearing, 'Great gig, man,' one more time just turns my stomach over. Votes: 0

We reject any idea that one race of people is in any way better than another. Votes: 0

By dislaiming the idea of a next life, we can take more excitement in this one! Votes: 0

You do not destroy an idea by killing people, you replace it with a better one. Votes: 0

Every new idea is just a mashup or a remix of one or more previous ideas. Votes: 0

The Yankees are only interested in one thing, and I have no idea what that is. Votes: 0

My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person. Votes: 0

Any religious, philosophical or political idea that doesn't lead one towards love ought to be forsaken Votes: 0

One should conquer the world, not to enthrone a man, but an idea; for ideas exist forever. Votes: 0

The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit. Votes: 0

We must not bring one war to an end, or thirty; but the idea of war itself. Votes: 0

The idea is a straightforward one. We provide an account for every newborn in America, a $500 account. Votes: 0

An idea or institution may arise for one reason and be maintained for quite a different reason. Votes: 0

One single idea may have greater weight than all the men, animals, and machines for a century. Votes: 0

Art requires, above all things, a suppression of self, a subordination of one's self to an idea. Votes: 0

A false idea is not only one which is absolutely subjective but one which is absolutely objective. Votes: 0

It is because every one tinder Heaven recognizes beauty as beauty that the idea of ugliness exists. Votes: 0

My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone. Votes: 0

Whitehead reacted strongly against the idea of God as a cosmic tyrant, one who brings about everything. Votes: 0

The more ideas one is free to explore, the more likely a truly creative idea can emerge. Votes: 0

Your idea of fidelity is not having more than one man in bed at the same time. Votes: 0

The day we dispose of the idea of disposability will be a great one for the planet. Votes: 0

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another. Votes: 0

Who can't relate to the idea of leaving one chapter behind and moving on to the next? Votes: 0

The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one. Votes: 0

One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures. Votes: 0

It takes 50 years to get a wrong idea out of medicine, and 100 years a right one into medicine. Votes: 0

One must know how to disregard the vehicle of the idea in order to consider its motivation alone. Votes: 0

Except for in politics, no one likes to follow an idea without a firm base to walk on Votes: 0

The idea of exposing the British public to the full breadth of my personality isn't a good one. Votes: 0

We have one of our greatest human experiences when we get an active idea working in our minds. Votes: 0

Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one. Votes: 0

What defines patriotism, for me, is the idea that one rises to act on behalf of one's country. Votes: 0

I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one. Votes: 0

My idea of a good novel was one you made enough money out of to buy a greenhouse. Votes: 0

I like any cereal. I like the idea of just eating and drinking with one hand without looking. Votes: 0

The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting. Votes: 0

Throughout my work is the idea, over and over, that we must all learn to respect one another. Votes: 0

The idea of going to school and getting a job is the most destructive one in your brain. Votes: 0

Entrepreneurship is a life idea, not a strictly business one; a global idea, not a strictly American one. Votes: 0

The idea that no one is perfect is a view most commonly held by people with no grandchildren. Votes: 0

There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner. Votes: 0

People have no idea what one saint can do: for sanctity is stronger than the whole of hell. Votes: 0

If God is One, and if there can be no other God, there can be no idea of God. Votes: 0

I have done conferences explaining that cloud is a bad idea. It's putting all your eggs in one basket. Votes: 0

One of the first things we must get rid of is the idea that democracy is tantamount to capitalism. Votes: 0

Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one. Votes: 0

It revealed a cruelty that really made one wonder if the universe was such a good idea after all. Votes: 0

I can't stand light. I hate weather. My idea of heaven is moving from one smoke-filled room to another. Votes: 0

When you find an idea that you just can't stop thinking about, that's probably a good one to pursue. Votes: 0

One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete. Votes: 0

When I started to work on perfume, I could not reduce the idea of a woman to one smell. Votes: 0

I love the idea that I'm the oldest one in the room because I can get away with anything! Votes: 0

The idea of abstracting away the one thing that must be blindingly fast, the kernel, is inherently counter productive. Votes: 0

Just the idea to have everything you need essentially stored in one piece of portable technology is very exciting. Votes: 0

When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea Votes: 0

My idea of an educated person is one who can converse on one subject for more than two minutes. Votes: 0

Our way is to practice one step at a time, one breath at a time, with no gaining idea. Votes: 0

When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea. Votes: 0

An essay is a work of literary art which has a minimum of one anecdote and one universal idea. Votes: 0

I don't champion the idea of being in a Hollywood movie. I never had fun in one of them. Votes: 0

The day you catch an idea you fall in love with, even a small one, is a beautiful day. Votes: 0

I don't champion the idea of being in a Hollywood movie. I never had fun in one of them Votes: 0

It's much easier to tame a wild idea than invigorate one that has no life in the first place. Votes: 0

One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives. Votes: 0

The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose. Votes: 0

Drop the idea that attachment and love are one thing. They are enemies. It is attachment that destroys all love. Votes: 0

A pattern is an idea that has been useful in one practical context and will probably be useful in others. Votes: 0

Don't you get the idea I'm one of those goddam radicals. Don't get the idea I'm knocking the American system. Votes: 0

This is the one great idea to understand that our power is already ours, our salvation is already within us. Votes: 0

The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time. Votes: 0

One of the great things about wrestling is how it interrogates this silly idea that you have one authentic self. Votes: 0

One of my favorite books is 'Armadillo Rodeo', and I got the idea from traveling to Texas and seeing armadillos. Votes: 0

Truthfully, the hardest part about fashion is not the vision or one great idea, but the execution of each aspect. Votes: 0

One key to entrepreneurial success is to get a great group of people around you who believe in your idea. Votes: 0

The idea of Disneyland is a simple one. It will be a place for people to find happiness and knowledge. Votes: 0

It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts, you have no idea of the pain it gives one. Votes: 0

We get into ruts when we run with the first idea that pops into our head, not the last one. Votes: 0

The only thing harder than getting a new idea into the military mind is to get an old one out. Votes: 0

Style ought to prove that one believes in an idea; not only that one thinks it but also feels it. Votes: 0

Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school. Votes: 0

The idea that there is only one way to be reconciled with God has its origins in the Old Testament. Votes: 0

I need one of those chapter breaks. I just want to catch my breath, but I have no idea how. Votes: 0

The person with just one good idea is a thousand times better off than the person with no good ideas. Votes: 0

The idea that things used to be better is fantasy. It's putting a halo on something that no one can disprove. Votes: 0

I rejected the idea of 9/11 being exploited pornographically immediately after the tragedy, when no one else breathed a word about it. Votes: 0

A swift carriage, of a dark night, rattling with four horses over roads that one can't see--that's my idea of happiness. Votes: 0

Like a necktie or a bouquet of flowers, an idea was best if one did not fuss with it too much Votes: 0

Remember that mindsets can not be changed through force and coercion. No idea can ever be forcibly thrust upon any one. Votes: 0

The evil which one suffers patiently as inevitable seems insupportable as soon as he conceives the idea of escaping from it. Votes: 0

Queen Victoria, one of our more frumpy Queen's. They're all frumpy aren't they? Because it's a bad idea when cousin's marry. Votes: 0

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come. Votes: 0

It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts - you have no idea of the pain it gives one. Votes: 0

War, hatred, and violence all spring from one infernal idea: that one person, race, creed, or culture is better than another. Votes: 0

I've frowned at the idea of breaking records, the first one to do something, or do it longer, higher, more difficult. Votes: 0

The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development-- Votes: 0

For the record, Irish," he informed her tightly, just in case she got the wrong idea, "I kneel to no one. Votes: 0

There's always that feeling of 'Oh, God! One day they'll find out that I really have no idea what I'm doing. Votes: 0

I like the idea of going to one of those retreats where you don't speak - like, silence for five days. Votes: 0

The idea that there could be other universes out there is really one that stretches the mind in a great way. Votes: 0

The idea that all problems either have a solution or can be shown to be pseudo-problems is not one I share. Votes: 0

The thing that intrigued me about 'Breaking Bad' from day one was the idea of taking a character and transforming him. Votes: 0

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man. Votes: 0

A good idea is something that does not solve just one single problem, but rather can solve multiple problems at once. Votes: 0

But one never does form a just idea of anybody beforehand. One takes up a notion and runs away with it. Votes: 0

This idea of compassion comes to us because we're made in the image of God, who is ultimately the compassionate one. Votes: 0

Fashion keeps me designing: the love of change, the idea that the next one will be the right one, the nonstop dialogue Votes: 0

I come from a land where the idea of the whole world being one family is rooted in our ethos 'vasudhaiva kutumbakam'. Votes: 0

... explore the idea of what the language that women speak would really be like if no one were there to correct them... Votes: 0

Transparency is not the same as looking straight through a building: it's not just a physical idea, it's also an intellectual one. Votes: 0

The average person's idea of a great man, rather than one who serves, is of one who succeeds in getting himself served. Votes: 0

Give up the idea of 'color' for awhile! Consider masses - values, only... One dark and one light place in every picture. Votes: 0

A creative idea will be defined simply as one that is both novel and useful or influential in a particular social setting. Votes: 0

I'm more obsessed with the idea of vacation than any one particular vacation spot. I love to explore new places and cultures. Votes: 0

No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life. Votes: 0

I think the idea of mixing luxury and mass-market fashion is very modern, very now - no one wears head-to-toe designer anymore. Votes: 0

You know, it's one thing about intellectuals, they prove that you can be absolutely brilliant and have no idea what's going on. Votes: 0

When you put off a task, you buy yourself time to engage in divergent thinking rather than foreclosing on one particular idea... Votes: 0

I hate the idea that someone think the destruction of Chicago as strategic affair, the destruction of Hamburg as a tactical one. Votes: 0

Feminism directly confronts the idea that one person or set of people [has] the right to impose definitions of reality on others. Votes: 0

The basic idea that marketing is wrong at its core is one of the main reasons why innovation seems blocked and unpredictable. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The right idea is the one you can't stop thinking about; the one that's in your head first thing in the morning. Votes: 0

I don't try to be clever at all. The idea that I could see what no one else can is an illusion. Votes: 0

My favourite vampires are all very scary indeed. So the idea of falling in love with one is just weird to me. Votes: 0

You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one's own. Votes: 0

Before you can write a novel you have to have a number of ideas that come together. One idea is not enough. Votes: 0

It might be inevitable that we have to confront the idea that our destiny is to be one world with one language. Votes: 0

Creativity is not being afraid to be different. It takes madness to jump at an idea that no one else believes in. Votes: 0

It takes courage to be creative. Just as soon as you have a new idea, you are in a minority of one. Votes: 0

When I was young, I flirted with the idea of a career in journalism on one hand and politics on the other. Votes: 0

I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me. Votes: 0

The idea of the solitary hero can be quite an unhealthy one, and we need to pool our efforts and be heroic together! Votes: 0

Never fall in love with an idea. They're whores: if the one you're with isn't doing the job, there's always, always, always another. Votes: 0

One of the things you learn very early in writing for television, especially, is that compressing the story is always a good idea. Votes: 0

I was in love with the idea of being in love with a woman way before I was actually in love with one. Votes: 0

Think beyond the pain. Think beyond the difficulty. Commit to having one good idea every day. What new idea will you claim today? Votes: 0

I wake you up and as I stare in your face, you seem stunned. Remember me? The one you got your idea from? Votes: 0

When one is in office one has no idea how damnable things can feel to the ordinary rank and file of the public. Votes: 0

You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot. Votes: 0

Kyle want to be a rockstar. I think hes working the one-name thing. Like Rihanna." "I have no idea what you're talking about. Votes: 0

When I find research really rewarding is when one piece of information gives you an idea for a story. That's when it's great. Votes: 0

The idea of choice is easily debased if one forgets that the aim is to have chosen successfully, not to be endlessly choosing. Votes: 0

People were destined for one another; that's the romantic idea that young girls have, and I guess part of me still believes it. Votes: 0

The whole dissident idea attracts a lot of crazies. And then all of a sudden, without realizing it, you've become one of them. Votes: 0

To realize the spirit as spirit is practical religion. Everything else is good so far as it leads to this one grand idea. Votes: 0

You can delegate a lot of things, but you can't delegate PRAYER. I'd rather have one GOD idea than a thousand GOOD ideas. Votes: 0

I am interested in power and in the idea of one country exerting power over another. The Soviets took this to an extreme. Votes: 0

I think anything is better than war. The extent to which one can negotiate with fanatics, I have no idea. I don't know. Votes: 0

One of the beautiful things about the idea of living forever is what that does to your soul and how it changes you. Votes: 0

Before there was a proper understanding and a sense of God's presence, the idea that everything would one day end was utterly desolating. Votes: 0

One of the strengths of my interviews is that I really, honest to God, have no idea what people are going to say. Votes: 0

He nods. "My mum has one just the same and you have no idea how disturbing it is that it's turning me on. Votes: 0

One stands, in fact, in awe of the Constitution of the United States, though it is an idea and not quite a reality. Votes: 0

Knowing who you are is good for one generation only. You haven't the foggiest idea where you stand now or who you are Votes: 0

We have this idea of perfection that is so unrealistic. We are our own worst enemy. No one is noticing that little scar. Votes: 0

All one really requires for putting anything over is enough energy and resistance to keep on plugging the idea. Someone will eventually fall. Votes: 0

Believe me, nothing is more beautiful than to carry out crazy ideas. I'd like my whole life to be one single crazy idea. Votes: 0

There is a vast difference between living according to one's idea of what it is to be good, and actually being that way. Votes: 0

Everything will come true in cyberspace. That's the whole idea. What cyberspace is, on one level, it's simply the human imagination vivified, hardwired. Votes: 0

This idea of weapons of mass extermination is utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate. Votes: 0

[American Citizenship] captures the enduring idea that this country only works when we accept certain obligations to one another and to future generations Votes: 0

Think for thyself one good idea, but known to be thine own, is better than a thousand gleaned from fields by others sown. Votes: 0

From day one, my idea was always to use the gallery as this animated place to discover culture in a much bigger way. Votes: 0

When one steals a flying balloon and animates it to fly over Paris, one should, ideally, have some idea how said balloon normally works. Votes: 0

One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual. Votes: 0

Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life. Votes: 0

'The Kumars'... played on five continents, and even when I came up with the idea, I was slightly surprised that no one else had. Votes: 0

While in the process of executing an idea, creativity happens not with one brilliant flash but in a chain reaction of many tiny sparks. Votes: 0

It's one thing to make peace with the idea of something that's going to happen someday; it's another to find yourself at that day. Votes: 0

To live well is to live in harmony with ourselves, others and nature, and that idea of harmony is, of course, an aesthetic one. Votes: 0

And there's the fallacy of existence: the idea that one could be happy forever and age with a given situation or series of accomplishments. Votes: 0

An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left. Votes: 0

To give you an idea how well I was doing at the time I quit, I was the only one who knew I quit. Votes: 0

One of the things you realize with a lot of high achievers: You have to figure out a way to make things their idea. Votes: 0

I just like the idea of trying something that no one's ever tried before, and I really wanted to know if it was possible. Votes: 0

It was one of those happy days that God grants us sometimes on earth to give us an idea of the bliss of heaven. Votes: 0

The idea that you can ask one question and it makes the point - well, that wasn't how psychology was done at the time. Votes: 0

Change is not so much about being the first one to embrace a new idea, but being the first to forget an old one Votes: 0

I've come to a wonderful realization that is fascinating: I have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to love. No one does! Votes: 0

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself, and a mean man, by one lower than himself. Votes: 0

If I read a book that cost me $20 and I get one good idea, I've gotten one of the greatest bargains of all time. Votes: 0

When you're writing, your mind has a place where the stories happen. With one word, you can get the idea of where you are. Votes: 0

Everybody has a different idea of love. One girl I know said, "I knew he loved me when de didn't come in my mouth. Votes: 0

No one knows just how the idea of a soul or the supernatural started... It probably had its origin in the general laziness of mankind. Votes: 0

One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual. Votes: 0

A little bit of one story joins onto an idea from another, and hey presto, . . . not old tales but new ones. Nothing comes from nothing. Votes: 0

No one has any idea what's next... the uncertainty of the business climate in America is frightening, frightening to everybody, and it's delaying the recovery. Votes: 0

Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid. Votes: 0

The idea that one might derive satisfaction from his or her successful work, because that work is ingenious, beautiful, or just pleasing, has become ridiculed. Votes: 0

Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea. Votes: 0

The idea of telling a story in reverse destabilises your ordinary moral reactions. That's one of the points of art - to challenge your preconceptions. Votes: 0

One can be certain that every generally held idea, every received notion, will be idiocy because it has been able to appeal to the majority Votes: 0

High School. Society’s bright idea to put all their aggressive, naive youth into one environment to torment and emotionally scar each other for life. Votes: 0

I like the idea of baking. I'd like to be good at it. But I feel like I'm young and one day I can be. Votes: 0

Meditation transports one from the transient world of matter to the real world of dreamings, visions, and imaginings where idea is and concepts are born. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Beautiful thoughts hardly bring us to God until they are acted upon. No one can have a true idea of right until he does it. Votes: 0

One of the important principles I live by is the idea that you have to contemplate yourself as surrounded by the conditions you intend to produce. Votes: 0

One of the tests that I frequently use in an interaction is I push on the idea and what I'm looking for is both flexibility & persistence. Votes: 0

This was an idea peculiar to Camille, Maximilien thought, that the worse things get, the better they get. No one else seems to think this way. Votes: 0

The problem with books, now that I've written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down to write something new. Votes: 0

Even the best computer in the world has no idea that it exists. You do. No one knows what creates that ineffable awareness that we're here... Votes: 0

It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them. Votes: 0

I swear I have at least one good song idea a day. But if I don't get pen to paper in ten seconds, it's gone forever. Votes: 0

Machiavelli is right: one always must live with one's friends with the idea that they may turn into one's enemies. He should have said, with everyone. Votes: 0

The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achieve that by silencing one brand of idea. Votes: 0

In any case, I married Feroze Gandhi. Once I get an idea in my head, no one in the world can make me change my mind. Votes: 0

I never liked the idea of giving interviews. One says many things, but when they are published, they become shortened, condensed. The ideas lose their meaning. Votes: 0

One of things so bad about depression and bipolar disorder is that if you don't have prior awareness, you don't have any idea what hit you. Votes: 0

No one thought I would be successful. Everyone thought I would fail. You have no idea how much courage it took for me to do this. Votes: 0

It's nice to win an award, I would assume. I've never won one, but I would imagine it's great. I have no idea what I'll do. Votes: 0

I do think that one needs to have respect for people who are older. And I really do love the idea that one can respect generations. Votes: 0

The idea that it is necessary to go to a university in order to become a successful writer . . . is one of those fantasies that surround authorship. Votes: 0

In life, have but one desire, one only--to love Jesus Christ with all your soul. Let that be the one fixed idea of your entire existence. Votes: 0

Trust is a delicate idea, held up by time and togetherness. But one person slips and the whole thing shatters. Like glass. and young girls' hearts. Votes: 0

Longfellow has his popularity, in the main, because he tells his story or his idea so that one needs nothing but his verses to understand it. Votes: 0

What seems like a crazy idea today eventually grows. It's a 'with hindsight' thing. One day, someone will turn around and say, 'That was genius.' Votes: 0

I've seen every one, from Motley Crue to John Denver, with tears running down my face. I had no idea everyone had such a hard time. Votes: 0

My poems often start with an idea, some kind of inspiration. I don't expect anything. Every now and then something like "The One Truth" comes out. Votes: 0

Belief may be no more, in the end, than a source of energy, like a battery which one clips into an idea to make it run. Votes: 0

We should have at least one new idea in the job training part of the platform. Otherwise, why don't we just take the 1964 platform and adopt it? Votes: 0

I love the idea of 'the one' but I actually believe that there isn't a Miss Right. There are 12,000 Miss Rights out there and it's all timing. Votes: 0

There are a couple hard things. One, getting a funny idea that people can relate to; a funny idea or a funny script; there's a million pitches. Votes: 0

Things own you. That's the trouble with capitalism. Things own you. With communism and fascism - ideas own you. One idea and you can't have any other. Votes: 0

The whole idea of interviews is in itself absurd - one cannot answer deep questions about what one's life was like - one writes novels about it. Votes: 0

If you want to explore a political idea in the highest possible way, you embody it in the personal, because that's something that no one can deny. Votes: 0

I never thought there might be one like you out there. Unaware, untrained. Unbelievable. You have no idea what you are, do you?” “Crazy? Votes: 0

There is no one way to render an idea. Let’s explore how masters of the sentence play with length and style to make their sentences distinctive. Votes: 0

This is the central idea of the Gita- to be calm and steadfast in all circumstances, with one's body, mind, and soul centered at His hallowed feet! Votes: 0

In a battle between two ideas, the best one doesn't necessarily win. No, the idea that wins is the one with the most fearless heretic behind it. Votes: 0

If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: 'It seemed like a good idea at the time.' Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Everybody's idea of a great book is different, of course. For me it's one that makes my jaw drop on every page, the writing is so original. Votes: 0

One of the achievements of the reform movement is that people realize that they can be democrats and remain faithful Muslims. Democracy is now an established idea. Votes: 0

This idea of perpetual happiness is crazy and overrated, because those dark moments fuel you for the next bright moments; each one helps you appreciate the other. Votes: 0

A strategist is one who helps people relax into their creative skills. People won't rally unless an idea is beautiful... Everyone is hanging on every word... Amazing. Votes: 0

There is no one else who can ever fill your role in the same way, so it's a good idea to perform it as well as possible. Votes: 0

There is a much higher probability that a first-class scholar should commit an error than that an author who usually writes nonsense should have one good idea. Votes: 0

Bringing good news is imparting hope to one's fellow man. The idea of redemption is always good news, even if it means sacrifice or some difficult times. Votes: 0

I wanted to be a writer, but the idea of writing novels or movies seemed really intimidating. I never got more than a few pages into one. Votes: 0

He'd learned in the past few months that telling a girl what to wear--even one the size of a golf club--was a bad idea. Histrionics often followed. Votes: 0

I hope no one asks me to show them the ropes; I have no idea where they are. Maybe I could pull some strings and find out. Votes: 0

Anybody can have ideas-the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph. Votes: 0

I had always thought that the idea of love at first sight was one of those things invented by lady novelists from the South with three names. Votes: 0

The more I see of life the more I perceive that only through solitary communion with nature can one gain an idea of its richness and meaning. Votes: 0

No one has any idea what's going to happen. Not even Elon Musk. That's why he's building those rockets. He wants a 'Plan B' on another world. Votes: 0

There is one thing that has disappeared, not just from the U.S. but from the entire world, is the idea of ever being embarrassed by anything. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If you're going to perform inception, you need imagination. You need the simplest version of the idea-the one that will grow naturally in the subject's mind. Subtle art. Votes: 0

The only idea they have ever manifested as to what is a government of consent, is this--that it is one to which everybody must consent, or be shot. Votes: 0

No one can tell the difference between a clone and a human. That's because there isn't any difference. The idea of clones being inferior is a filthy lie. Votes: 0

Take the year a country first reaches 50% literacy and add one or two generations to allow the idea to sink in and, democracy, more or less automatically, appears. Votes: 0

The idea of romanticising the world goes back to the idea of creating a harmonious whole where the individual will feel at one with himself, others and nature. Votes: 0

The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences. Votes: 0

As an actress, it appeals to me because I love the idea of playing those in-between moments, the sort of behavioral stuff that one might not normally see. Votes: 0

It's a romantic notion that you're going to have one brilliant idea and then everything is going to be great... but the execution and delivery are what's key. Votes: 0

The idea that maybe you don't have to own a car if you only need one occasionally may catch on, just like time-sharing caught on in real estate. Votes: 0

War cannot be used as a means to prevent or abolish wars. ... The idea of a war to prevent war is one of its oldest, and cruelest, tricks. Votes: 0

The way Pixar has always worked is that we think of an idea and then we make it. We don't develop lots of ideas and then pick one. Votes: 0

I have no idea why it apparently takes three grown men to cook some hamburgers. One to cook, one to kibbitz, and one to insult the other two. Votes: 0

One thing has always been true: That book or that person who can give me an idea or a new slant on an old idea is my friend. Votes: 0

What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is food for worms. Votes: 0

The calendar of the Theocracy of Muntab counts down, not up. No-one knows why, but it might not be a good idea to hang around and find out. Votes: 0

The idea that maybe you don't have to own a car if you only need one occasionally may catch on, just like time-sharing caught on in real estate Votes: 0

I like the idea of having an old Gibson [guitar], but I don't have one. The Gibson has a different quality, but it's almost like you need both. Votes: 0

One day, she'd find a way to live her life to the fullest. She was sure of it. She just had no idea how she would manage it. Votes: 0

Where most people looked forward to the weekend to go out and yie one on, my idea of a good time was to figure out a Scorpions song Votes: 0

I don't like the idea of competition - maybe because I kept losing them when I was a kid. Maybe it's better to be the one who loses? Votes: 0

When I get an idea for a song it would gel in my mind for weeks or months, and then one day just like that, Ill write it. Votes: 0

Do you know the phrase, 'The word 'water' will not wet you?' It's one thing to write down an idea and another thing entirely to execute it. Votes: 0

To die is only to be as we were before we were born; yet no one feels any remorse, or regret, or repugnance, in contemplating this last idea. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Our need is so desperate an idea, a thing, a law can't help us. It took one thing, the gift of gifts, God in the flesh, to rescue us. Votes: 0

Our empirical criterion for a series of theories is that it should produce new facts. The idea of growth and the concept of empirical character are soldered into one. Votes: 0

I'm wary of the new contactless ways of paying. The idea of paying with your phone is a little worrying: I have lost more than one over the years. Votes: 0

Always remember that renunciation is the root idea. Unless one is initiated into this idea, not even Brahma and the World - gods have the power to attain Mukti Votes: 0

There's an element of tongue-in-cheek in every one of our songs. Walking off into the sunset, holding hands, and being married forever was not exactly a brand new idea. Votes: 0

I guess that's one achievement I'm really proud of. Saving Chrysler was more than jobs, more than shareholder value. Saving Chrysler was a good idea for the whole country. Votes: 0

It is not easy to convey, unless one has experienced it, the dramatic feeling of sudden enlightenment that floods the mind when the right idea finally clinches into place. Votes: 0

A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission. Votes: 0

A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission. Votes: 0

Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind. Votes: 0

Certainly the central Platonic idea, which is the idea of the ideas, these archetypal forms which stand outside of time is one which is confirmed by the psychedelic experience. Votes: 0

The idea of 'machine assemblage' is, especially, very alien to my sensibility, since it suggests a relative indifference of the strata to one another during the process of construction. Votes: 0

... a widespread secularization increasingly descends into a moral, intellectual, and spiritual nihilism that denies not only the One who is the Truth but the very idea of truth itself. Votes: 0

The idea that emotion can be separated from sex is a Christian illusion, one of the most ingenious but finally unworkable strategies in Christianity's ancient campaign against pagan nature.? Votes: 0

But Christianity is an invention of sick brains: one could imagine nothing more senseless, nor any more indecent way of turning the idea of the Godhead into a mockery. Votes: 0

An unbending and absolute acceptance of any idea is a sure sign of a small mind, no matter the greatness of intellect possesed by the one accepting that idea. Votes: 0

At Wal-Mart, if you couldn't explain an idea or a concept in simple terms on one page of paper Sam Walton considered the new idea too complicated to implement. Votes: 0

Man thinks many things. He thinks he is One. He is usually several. Until he becomes One, he cannot have a fair idea of what he is at all. Votes: 0

Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love. Votes: 0

The real artist has no idea that he is sacrificing himself for art. He does what he does for one reason and one reason only-he can't help doing it. Votes: 0

I as a Muslim believe deeply in the differences that are within Islam. But I also take seriously the idea that we have to come to know one another. Votes: 0

Most of us have one big idea at some point in our lives. That Eureka! moment. It comes to us all in different ways, often by chance of serendipity. Votes: 0

I find it peculiar when people scoff at one bold idea, and yet they'll then turn over and watch a man travel through time in a police phone box. Votes: 0

Most people believe that results matter. The idea that results matter is one that you have to keep letting go of. And most of the time, I believe it. Votes: 0

The sense of self is one of the obscurations that prevents us from seeing clearly, the idea that there is a self or that we are anyone in particular. Votes: 0

I dont love the phrase balancing work and family. It sets up this idea of scales of justice with work on one side and family on the other side. Votes: 0

One of the things that was crucial for me I got from Rory Gallagher, which was the idea of, like, being a guitar player for life and living it. Votes: 0

From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to create ourselves as a work of art. Votes: 0

Move fast. A sense of urgency is the one thing you can develop that will separate you from everyone else. When you get a good idea, do it now. Votes: 0

There's been a number of erroneous biographies, articles and so on written about Billy and we both thought it would be a good idea to produce a true one. Votes: 0

If I do decide one day to stop acting, I just hate the idea of people going: 'Oh, did you ever do anything else besides that Twilight thing?' Votes: 0

When my first wife & I began the school, we had one main idea: to make the school fit the child - instead of making the child fit the school. Votes: 0

I consider myself a kind of a one-man government-in-exile. I don't want to call it a government - let's call it one man's idea of American freedom in exile. Votes: 0

School is basically about one point of view - the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don't like the idea of having different points of view,... Votes: 0

One of the biggest things happening in the art world is this idea of expansion. No one embodies this aspect of what art is becoming better than James Franco. Votes: 0

To have a true idea of man or of life, one must have stood himself on the brink of suicide, or on the door-sill of insanity, at least once. Votes: 0

In one word, Queequeg, said I, rather digressively; hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple-dumpling; and since then perpetuated through the hereditary dyspepsias nurtured by Ramadans. Votes: 0

I don't love the phrase 'balancing work and family.' It sets up this idea of scales of justice with work on one side and family on the other side. Votes: 0

The real artist has no idea that he is sacrificing himself for art. He does “what he does for one reason and one reason only-he can't help doing it” Votes: 0

We must plunge heart and soul and body into the work. And until we are ready to sacrifice everything else to one Idea and to one alone, we never, never will see the Light. Votes: 0