“Launching a breakthrough idea is like shooting skeet. People's needs change, so you must aim well ahead of the target to hit it.” PeopleNeedsWellsIdeasCreativityAimShootingTargetBreakthroughNeed A ChangeLaunching Author:Ray Kurzweil
“The greatest of all human delusions is that there is a tangible goal, and not just direction towards an ideal aim. The idea that a goal can be attained perpetually frustrates human beings, who are disappointed at never getting there, never being able to stop.” HumansIdeasAbleGoalHuman BeingsIdealsAimDelusionDisappointedTangible Author:Stephen Spender
“My activities have never had anything to do with the idea of becoming famous or achieving success. I have always been concerned with getting people to listen to me. In everything I do ... my aim is to make people listen. I want to communicate the things that I love and in which I believe, because I think that people can derive a general benefit from them. What I really want is success in a philosophical sense: I want people to grasp something of the ideas and hopes which I express in painting.” PeopleThinkingWantBelieveIdeasI BelieveAchievePaintingBecomingActivityBenefitsConcernedPhilosophicalAimCommunicateListen To MeAchieving SuccessBecoming Famous Author:Antoni Tapies
“What counts alone is the innovator, the dissenter, the harbinger of things unheard of, the man who rejects the traditional standards and aims at substituting new values and ideas for old ones.” MenIdeasValuesHe ManStandardsAimTraditionalRejectsInnovatorsUnheardHarbinger Book:Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The Source: Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The
“Brethren, do something; do something, do something! While societies and unions make constitutions, let us win souls. I pray you, be men of action all of you. Get to work and quit yourselves like men. Old Suvarov's idea of war is mine: `Forward and strike! No theory! Attack! Form a column! Charge bayonets! Plunge into the center of the enemy! Our one aim is to win souls; and this we are not to talk about, but do in the power of God!'” MenIdeasWarSoulActionFormWinningEnemyMinesTheoryPrayingConstitutionAimUnionsStrikesQuittingBe A ManI PrayColumnsPlungeBrethrenPower Of GodBayonets Author:Charles Spurgeon
“A fascinating, insightful, and new treatment from the perspective of an intimately involved former Iranian senior official on Iran's nuclear program and responses to it. For those familiar with the details, there is much new information about the Iran side, its ideas, strategies, disputes, and aims. U.S. experts will have some key questions but will learn much from this extraordinary book.” BookIdeasSidesInformationPerspectiveKeysInvolvedProgramAimStrategyResponseExtraordinaryDetailsNuclearFamiliarFormerExpertsOfficialsFascinatingTreatmentIranInsightfulSeniorDisputesIranianNew Information Author:Thomas R. Pickering
“I think I have never yet done any work with the aim of symbolizing a particular idea, but the fact that a symbol is sometimes discovered or remarked upon is valuable for me because it makes it easier to accept the inexplicable nature of my hobbies, which constantly preoccupy me.” ThinkingIdeasSometimesDoneFactsAcceptingParticularEasierAimValuableSymbolsHobbiesInexplicable Author:M. C. Escher
“My aim is to communicate with the last man in the audience. Art minus communication is meaningless. The term 'abhinaya' is not just facial expressions. It means drawing the spectator to an idea. Look at the modern advertisements. It's contemporary abhinaya. But one who creates should know what has to be completely and what has to be suggestively portrayed. That is ethical aesthetics. The Natyasastra says a production must be such that a family should be able to watch it together.” KnowsMenShouldLooksMeanArtIdeasAbleTogetherLastsTermWatchesAudienceModernExpressionCommunicationAimProductionsCommunicateDrawingContemporaryEthicalMeaninglessSpectatorsAestheticsAdvertisementsMinusFacialFacial Expression Author:Padma Subrahmanyam
“The history of mankind is the history of ideas. For it is ideas, theories, and doctrines that guide human action, determine the ultimate ends men aim at, and the choice of the means employed for the attainment of these ends.” MenLifeHumansMeanIdeasEndsActionChoicesMankindTheoryUltimateAimDetermineGuidesDoctrineEmployedAttainmentHuman Actions Book:Planned Chaos Source: Planned Chaos
“We are not very pleased when we are forced to accept a mathematical truth by virtue of a complicated chain of formal conclusions and computations, which we traverse blindly, link by link, feeling our way by touch. We want first an overview of the aim and of the road; we want to understand the idea of the proof, the deeper context.” WayWantFirstsIdeasFeelingsTruthAcceptingVirtueAimMathematicsDeeperComplicatedMathProofConclusionChainsMathematicalLinksFormalComputationTraverseMathematical ProofOverview Book:Levels of Infinity: Selected Writings on Mathematics and Philosophy Source: Levels of Infinity: Selected Writings on Mathematics and Philosophy