I Quotes
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“Ideally, poetry in translation should one day lead a reader to a reading of the poem in the original tongue. The poem in its native phonemes, we often forget, was primarily a poem, and a good one, presumably, if chosen for translation. A poem in translation should be faithful, if to anything, to this primary quality of the original—that of its being an effective poem.”
Source: Ancient Greek Lyrics
“Ideally, the ISS program will just be one more incremental step on an expanding, incredible journal of exploration and understanding, taking us higher and farther.”
Source: The Orbital Perspective: Lessons in Seeing the Big Picture from a Journey of 71 Million Miles
“Ideally the point of music is community, not the player. Musicians are simply channels to link the audience to the music and to each other.”
“Ideally, the pursuit of truth is said to be at the heart of the intellectual's business, but this credits his business too much and not quite enough. As with the pursuit of happiness, the pursuit of truth is itself gratifying whereas consummation often turns out to be elusive. Truth captured loses its glamour; truths long known and widely believed have a way of turning false with time; easy truths are bore and too many of them become half truths. Whatever the intellectual is too certain of, if he is healthily playful, he begins to find unsatisfactory. The meaning of his intellectual life lies not in the possession of truth but in the quest for new uncertainties. Harold Rosenberg summed up this side of the life of the mind supremely well when he said that the intellectual is one who turns answers into questions.”
Source: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
“Ideally, the team designs a future state the results in lower lead time, lower process time, and higher percent complete and accurate for every process block.”
Source: Value Stream Mapping: How to Visualize Work and Align Leadership for Organizational Transformation
“Ideally, the two structures - hierarchy, and relationship structure wrap around each other to ensure responsibility, to keep information flow and the creation of power.”
Source: Digital Maturity: Take a Journey of a Thousand Miles from Functioning to Delight
“Ideally the ultimate retreat is to retreat from the past and the future to always remain in the present.”
“Ideally there should not be a men's movement but a gender transition movement; only the power of the women's movement necessitates the temporary corrective of a men's movement. And this creates a special challenge for men: There are few political movements filled with healthy people, yet few healthy changes have occurred without political movements.”
Source: The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex
“Ideally we're going to stay at an American hotel. We just want to take every precaution. Because if you get sick out there, and you're playing in that hot sun and you get depleted, it's going to be a problem. So that would be the only other thing I think that athletes on a whole are going to be worried about. But again, we have to do our part and take every precaution and be smart.”
“Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: 'You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by people who have been able to accommodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors. It is a self-perpetuating system. Those of you who are more robust and individual than others will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself — educating your own judgements. Those that stay must remember, always, and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this particular society.”
Source: The Golden Notebook
“Ideally, work is the activity of purpose fulfillment. And in this context, work is good.”
“Ideally you want to be a couple of months ahead on a project. But I rarely am.”
“Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness.”
“Ideally, anything one writes should have a social conscience: if you can write a story that thrills, and with a good message, that's the perfect type of a story.”
“Ideally, as parents we'd have unlimited energy, the ability to manage tricky emotions like fear and anger, vast stores of wisdom to answer complicated but important questions, love that never grows tired, patience that never ends... Every parent would like to have all of these, but God alone possesses them fully. Parenting reminded me of what I lacked more than it ever made me feel equipped. But there's a spiritual purpose in that!”
“Ideally, both members of a couple in love free each other to new and different worlds.”
Source: Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead
“Ideally, brewers interpret history, and through science they create art.”
“Ideally, couples need three lives; one for him, one for her, and one for them together.”
“Ideally, each piece of art's its own unique object, and its evaluation's always present-tense.”
“Ideally, each week, I'd like to have rad, intelligent, creative, funny guests with different takes on the world of music. I will ask them all what their favorite blink-182 song is, and what they like best about me as a person.”
“Ideally, government is the means by which all the individual wills are assured complete freedom of moral choice and at the same time prevented from ever clashing.”
“Ideally, I like to integrate the human issues into the suspense story itself.”
“Ideally, I would create a book so interdependent and self-sustaining in its parts, so wondrously connected word by word and paragraph by paragraph, so charged with the joy of language, that it would actually float three or four inches above any table where you try to set it down.”
“Ideally, I would love to mix singing and acting, but you can only be a pop star for so many years. I mean, at 30 it's a little bit sad, right?”
“Ideally, I'd like every issue to include a diverse group of stories that meet the qualifications sketched above, but covering a wide range of specific matter and flavour.”
“Ideally, I'd like everybody to be secular.”
“Ideally, I'd like to be the eternal novice, for then only the surprises would be endless.”
“Ideally, I'd prefer never having to be in a test-screening environment. Some famous director said "The group is smart, the individuals are stupid," about the experience of a test screening.”
“Ideally, if anything [was] any good, it would be indescribable.”
“Ideally, nothing should be embraced by a consumer firmly, nothing should command a commitment till death do us part, no needs should be seen as fully satisfied, no desires considered ultimate. There ought to be a proviso 'until further notice' attached to any oath of loyalty and any commitment. It is but the volatility, the in-built temporality of all engagements that truly counts; it counts more than the commitment itself, which is anyway not allowed to outlast the time necessary for consuming the object of desire (or, rather, the time sufficient for the desirability of that object to wane).”
Source: Globalization: The Human Consequences
“Ideally, nothing should be shown, but that’s impossible.”
“Ideally, one should have more material than one can possibly cope with.”
Source: Frank Auerbach: catalogue of an exhibtion held at the Hayward Gallery, London, 4 May - 2 July 1978, Fruit Market Gallery, Edinburgh, 15 July 12 August, 1978
“Ideally, our muscles should obey our will. Reasonably, our will should not be dominated by the reflex actions of our muscles.”
Source: Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology
“Ideally, our rules should be formed in such a fashion that an ordinary helpful kind thoughtful person doesn't really even need to know the rules. You just get to work, do something fun, and nobody hassles you as long as you are being thoughtful and kind.”
“Ideally, peace means the absence of violence. It is an ethical value.”
Source: Mikhail Gorbachev: Prophet of Change : from the Cold War to a Sustainable World
“Ideally, people find mates with whom they can express both their masculine and feminine sides.”
“Ideally, since 80 percent of your life is spent working, you should start your business around something that is a passion of yours”
“Ideally, the star will be replaced within eight hours. This sends the message that no single individual is bigger than the company.”
“Ideally, the writer needs no audience other than the few who understand that it is immodest and greedy to want more.”
Source: Matters of fact and of fiction: essays, 1973-1976
“Ideally, travel broadens our perspectives personally, culturally, and politically. Suddenly, the palette with which we paint the story of our lives has more colors.”
Source: Rick Steves Travel as a Political Act
“Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading”
Source: An Experiment in Criticism
“Ideally, we'd want an Irishman coming in for the job, but, ideally it doesn't really matter.”
“Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: "You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do."”
Source: The Golden Notebook
“Ideally, what you would like to have eventually is such a unique and identifiable brand that when someone says 'Indiana State University,' they know exactly what that means. And that takes a long time coming.”
“Ideally, when Christians meet, as Christians do, to take counsel together, their purpose is not ( or should not be) to ascertain what is the mind of the majority but what is the mind of the Holy Spirit - something which may be quite different.”
Source: The revival of Britain: speeches on home and European affairs, 1975-1988
“Ideally, you don't speak until you have something honest to say.”
“Ideally, you should be your own hero, just as I am mine.”
“Ideally, you want to be in a fifty-fifty power-sharing arrangement with the audience - both of you are there for a mutually enjoyable experience.”
Source: Comic Insights: The Art of Stand-up Comedy
“Ideally, you will develop strategic response to your place in the corporate lifecycle to identify new paths of strategic renewal. You will look for new growth curves that can be started early enough to replace declining products and you will try to identify whole new curves that will take the organisation to new levels of growth as a whole.”
Source: The Strategy Book ePub eBook: How to Think and Act Strategically to Deliver Outstanding Results
“Ideally, you would live in an area that is not necessarily in the middle of the country, out in the woods, because you can isolate yourself there and get stuck in your own thoughts.”