Best force & ideas Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“My dad served in the Air Force as ground crew for several years, and doesn't really talk about it. I know that it's there. I think my main thing about direct or indirect experiences as near to home as it were is the idea of self-sacrifice really.”

Thinking Knows Years Ideas Self Home Force Sacrifice Air Dad Direct My Dad Crew Self Sacrifice Air Force Indirect

Author:Jeremy Northam

“A nervous excitability, a chronic exaltation of the passion, in which commingle the inferior life of the individual and its exterior manifestations, a state in which sentiment, idea, and will are confounded together, where for the lack of the powerful corrective of logic, the flights of imagination know no bounds, where life and human activity are deprived of a regulator, and move outside of material and concrete factors, by the sole interior force of the soul.”

“Cold Case Files and similar shows do bang up business, which points to a certain thirst for details in the viewership, but it seems like all the news chat shows continue to force the myth that Americans can’t stand detail and have no interest in an idea that can’t fit on a bumper sticker.”

Ideas Shows Seems Certain Force Interest Cases Cold Fit News Details Myth Thirst Bangs Files Bumper Sticker Bumper Sticker Cold Case

Author:Hal Sparks

“It is a good idea to become involved with sports and athletics. It makes you strong. You need to be strong to deal with this world and the powers and forces that block enlightenment.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“There is an idea, the basis of an internal structure, expanded and split into different shapes or groups of sound constantly changing in shape, direction, and speed, attracted and repulsed by various forces.”

Ideas Different Force Sound Groups Shapes Bases Structure Various Speed Internals Splits

Author:Edgard Varese

“In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.”

Ideas Force Battle Latter

Book:Liberalism: The Classical Tradition: The Economist

Source: Liberalism: The Classical Tradition: The Economist

“You must force yourself to consider opposing arguments. Especially when they challenge your best loved ideas.”

Ideas Force Challenges Argument Opposing Best Love

Author:Charlie Munger

“A book is actually a place, a place where we, as adults, still have the chance to engage in active imagining, translating word to image, connecting these images to memories, dreams, and larger ideas. Television, film, even the stage play, have already been imagined for us, but the book, in whatever form we choose to interact with it, forces us to complete it.”

Stills Book Ideas Play Dream Film Form Force Memories Chance Stage Television Adults Active Translate Connecting Stage Play

Author:Joe Meno

“When you see evil do not form ideas that are in the likeness of that evil; do not think of the evil as bad, but try to understand the forces that are back of that evil—forces that are good in themselves, though misdirected in their present state. By trying to understand the nature of the power that is back of evil or adversity, you will not form bad ideas, and therefore will feel no bad effects from experiences that may seem undesirable. At the same time, you will think your own thought about the experiences, thereby developing the power of the master mind.”

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Book:Your Forces and How to Use Them

Source: Your Forces and How to Use Them

“Let us be clear: censorship is cowardice. ... It masks corruption. It is a school of torture: it teaches, and accustoms one to the use of force against an idea, to submit thought to an alien "other." But worst still, censorship destroys criticism, which is the essential ingredient of culture.”

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Author:Pablo Antonio Cuadra

“What is the most powerful force in the world? And I think you would agree that is a big idea if it is in the hands of an entrepreneur who is actually going to make the idea not only happen, but spread all across society. And we understand that in business but we have need for entrepreneurship just as much in education, human rights, health, and the environment as we do in hotels and steel.”

Ifs Thinking World Needs Humans Ideas Hands Bigs Happens Force Powerful Environment Rights Agree Entrepreneur Human Rights Spread Entrepreneurship Hotel Most Powerful Steel Big Ideas

Author:Bill Drayton

“The greenhouse crisis is the bill coming due for the Industrial Revolution. It's not an accident. It's the logical outcome of our world view - the idea that we can control the forces of nature, that we can have short-term expedient gains without paying for them, that there are no limits to exploitation of the environment, that we can produce and consume faster than nature's ability to replenish.”

“The mind supplies the idea of a nation, but what gives this idea its sentimental force is a community of dreams.”

Giving Mind Ideas Dream Force Nations Community Nationalism Sentimental Supplies

Author:Andre Malraux

“Those same forces that drive a genius to create the things or ideas that entertain or enlighten us often gobble so much of his personality that he has none left for the social graces.”

Ideas Left Force Social Grace Personality Genius Enlightening Social Graces

Book:Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Source: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

“Alec Baldwin is an incredible... I mean this guy is a tour de force when you talk about people that are generous and available and somebody you could approach and I have ideas.”

People Mean Ideas Guy Force Approach Incredibles Available Generous This Guy

Author:Kate Hudson

“Strength means...acknowledging each of those feelings, your questions and ideas and faith and terror, and meeting what comes with the full force of your heart.”

Heart Mean Ideas Feelings Force Meetings Terror

Author:Brenda Shaughnessy

“I became very obsessed with death, and the idea that you never know when death will arrive, so one has to do as much as possible all the time to get the most out of life. That would be a motivating force.”

Knows Ideas Would Be Force Obsessed

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“The artist may rightly venture the opinion that he does not convey ideas, does not preach, nor that he intents to convert people by using mass communication techniques.. .Better than handing out all kinds of wise advice, he could show life itself; he could awake forces lying dormant in everybody, he could launch an invitation to create direct and personal experiences.”

“Our business in life is not to get ahead of others but to get ahead of ourselves; to break our own records; to outstrip our yesterdays by our todays; to bear our trials more beautifully than we ever dreamed we could; to give as we never have given; to do our work with more force and a finer finish than ever. This is the true idea: to get ahead of ourselves.”

Giving Ideas Today Life Is Given Force Break Records Bears Yesterday Trials Get Ahead

Author:Carl Holmes

“I am not talking about rebelliousness, but giving people time for constructive internal reflection and even daydreaming. A lot of research is suggesting that the more that you demand people's external attention, the less chance you are allowing them to dip into the default mode where daydreams and reflection happen - and lot of great ideas are not going to come from the brute force of work but from personal life experience. Mind-wandering seems to be essential to the creative process, and I don't think a lot of businesses are aware of that fact.”

“The whole aspect of the universe changes with this new conception. The idea of force governing the world, of pre-established law, preconceived harmony, disappears to make room for the harmony that Fourier had caught a glimpse of: the one which results from the disorderly and incoherent movements of numberless hosts of matter, each of which goes its own way and all of which hold each other in equilibrium.”

World Way Ideas Matter Whole Law Universe Force Rooms Results Movement Aspect Harmony Caught Disappear Conception Host Glimpse Governing Equilibrium Fourier

Book:Fugitive writings

Source: Fugitive writings

“They opposed brute force to reason and philosophy, and battalions of foreign mercenaries to ideas. As if ideas were to be impaled on bayonets!”

Ifs Ideas Reason Philosophy Force Brutes Brute Force Bayonets

Book:Scaramouche, A Romance of the French Revolution: the History Focus

Source: Scaramouche, A Romance of the French Revolution: the History Focus

“How truly language must be regarded as a hindrance to thought, though the necessary instrument of it, we shall clearly perceive on remembering the comparative force with which simple ideas are communicated by signs. To say, "Leave the room," is less expressive than to point to the door. Place a finger on the lips is more forcible than whispering, "Do not speak." A beck of the hand is better than, "Come here." No phrase can convey the idea of surprise so vividly as opening the eyes and raising the eyebrows. A shrug of the shoulders would lose much by translation into words.”

Source: Essays: Moral, Political and Aesthetic

“Let us build a structure of peace in the world in which the weak are as safe as the strong in which each respects the right of the other to live by a different system in which those who would influence others will do so by the strength of their ideas, and not by the force of their arms. Let us accept that high responsibility not as a burden, but gladly gladly because the chance to build such a peace is the noblest endeavor in which a nation can engage.”

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Author:Richard M. Nixon

“You can see why the Marxist left would resist the idea that Hitler was a revolutionary. Because if he was, then either Hitler was a force for good, or revolutions can be bad.”

Ifs Ideas Left Force Revolution Revolutionary Marxist

Book:Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning

Source: Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning

“A field marshal who issued orders to the armed forces but had no idea of the results they would have in practice.”

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Author:Wilhelm Keitel

“When Tony Benn became a minister in the 1960s -- and I think this must be apocryphal -- he had a huge map of Britain hung upside down in his office, so the channel was at the top and Scotland was at the bottom and, apparently, he said, "This is how we need to look at this country, with the money and the power draining by force of gravity out of the south east." That was a great idea. I rather liked him for that. I don't know if it's actually true or not.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Needs Looks Said Ideas Country Force Huge Office South Bottom East Ministers Britain Maps Gravity Hung Scotland 1960s Great Idea Upside Down Draining

Author:Neal Ascherson

“I'm an agnostic. Sometimes I muse deeply on the forces that are for me invisible. When I am almost close to the idea of God, I feel immediately estranged by the horrors of this world, which he seems to tolerate.”

World Feels Ideas Sometimes Seems Force This World Horror Invisible Tolerate Muse Agnostic

Author:Stanislaw Ulam

“In a nutshell, the idea of Juche means that the masters of the revolution and the work of construction are the masses of the people and that they are also the motive force of the revolution and the work of construction. In other words, one is responsible for one's own destiny and one has also the capacity for hewing out one's own destiny.”

People Mean Ideas Force Destiny Masters Revolution Mass Capacity Responsible Motive Construction

Author:Kim Il-sung

“There are certain functions that the family performs. In the first place the family provides society with an orderly means of reproduction, while at the same time the norms of marriage control the potentially disruptive forces of sexuality. Second, the family provides physical and economic support for the child during the early years of dependence. The child receives its primary socialization in the family, learning the essential ideas and values required for adult life.”

Years Firsts Mean Children Ideas Certain Values Force Support Economic Essentials Adults Function Sexuality Primaries Dependence Norm Reproduction Orderly Disruptive Socialization

Author:Adrian Wilson

“We urge all people to recognize that religious freedom requires not trying to use the power of government to force religious ideas on others.”

People Trying Ideas Use Government Force Religious Atheism Positive Atheism Urges Religious Freedom

Author:Ed Buckner

“Two hundred years ago the forces of freedom challenged this idea. The children of the new enlightenment rose up to defy the tyranny of arrogant clergy and the censorship of pious bureaucrats. They boldly proclaimed that the state must be free from religious coercion and that religion must be free from state control. All individuals have the right to pursue the dictates of their own conscience. All citizens even have the right not to be religious at all.”

“There's so many intangible forces that come into play when making a film, I have no idea what the public will ultimately think of something that I do, let alone critics.”

Thinking Ideas Play Film Force Critics No Idea Intangible

Author:Leonardo DiCaprio

“I think that plain old intellectualism [can be] a more powerful force than the idea of the femme fatale.”

Thinking Ideas Force Powerful Intellectualism Femme Femme Fatale

Author:Lana Del Rey

“The world understands that our country could solve all conflicts with military solutions, but we won't because we have leaders and we have a moral responsibility but we have also have a political - we have a political leader who is scared and who is raised on the idea that American force is the true evil.”

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Author:Greg Gutfeld

“Peter Watts has taken the core myths of the First Contact story and shaken them to pieces. The result is a shocking and mesmerizing performance, a tour-de-force of provocative and often alarming ideas. It is a rare novel that has the potential to set science fiction on an entirely new course. Blindsight is such a book.”

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Author:Karl Schroeder

“Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has caused a deadly mutation in the heart of Islam and we see the tragic consequences in Paris today. I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire, which has always been a force for liberty and against tyranny, dishonesty and stupidity. 'Respect for religion' has become a code phrase meaning 'fear of religion.' Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.”

“Every time people force themselves to carry on with a book they're not enjoying, they reinforce the idea that reading is a duty.”

People Book Ideas Reading Force Enjoy Duty

Author:Nick Hornby

“Broadly speaking, Keynesianism means that the government has a specific responsibility for the behavior of the economy, that it doesn't work on its own autonomous course, but the government, when there's a recession, compensates by employment, by expansion of purchasing power, and in boom times corrects by being a restraining force. But it controls the great flow of demand into the economy, what since Keynesian times has been the flow of aggregate demand. That was the basic idea of Keynes so far as one can put it in a couple of sentences.”

“Let passion reach a catastrophe and it submits us to an intoxicating force far more powerful than the niggardly irritation of wine or of opium. The lucidity our ideas then achieve, and the delicacy of our overly exalted sensations, produce the strangest and most unexpected effects.”

Ideas Passion Force Powerful Achieve Effects Produce Wine Unexpected Sensations Submit Catastrophe Exalted Delicacy Irritation Opium Lucidity

Author:Honore de Balzac

“All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions. The man strongly possessed of an idea is the master of all who are uncertain or wavering. Clear, deep, living convictions rule the world.”

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Book:Common-sense in Religion: A Series of Essays

Source: Common-sense in Religion: A Series of Essays

“Political correctness is a concept invented by hard-rightwing forces to defend their right to be racist, to treat women in a degrading way and to be truly vile about gay people. They invent this idea of people who are politically correct, with a rigid, monstrous attitude to life so they can attack. But we have all had to learn to modify our language. That's all part of being a decent human being.”

“Government began in tyranny and force, began in the feudalism of the soldier and bigotry of the priest; and the ideas of justice and humanity have been fighting their way, like a thunderstorm, against the organized selfishness of human nature.”

Way Humans Has Beens Ideas Government Humanity Fighting Force Justice Human Nature Soldier Tyranny Selfishness Organized Priests Bigotry Thunderstorm Feudalism

Book:Speeches, Lectures, and Letters

Source: Speeches, Lectures, and Letters

“The soul has to find and hold its ground against hostile forces, sometimes embodied in ideas which frequently deny its very existence, and which indeed often seem to be trying to annul it altogether.”

Trying Ideas Soul Sometimes Seems Force Existence Deny Hostile

Author:Saul Bellow

“It is when I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer.....that ideas flow best and most abundantly. Whence and how they come, I know not, nor can I force them.”

Knows Ideas Force Flow Cheer Good Cheer

Author:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“Of course, even the general designation 'religious' includes various basic ideas or convictions, for example, the indestructibility of the soul, the eternity of its existence, the existence of a higher being, etc. But all these ideas, regardless of how convincing they may be for the individual, are submitted to the critical examination of this individual and hence to a fluctuating affirmation or negation until emotional divination or knowledge assumes the binding force of apodictic faith.”

“It's unsettling, to lose the safety of the familiar, even when what's disrupted is an ordinary routine. When I began this poem, I was grieving for the loss of my old barbershop in Manhattan, and wondering at the strangeness of my new one. I didn't have any idea the poem would break into the underworld, opening a deeper subject: the continuing force of the old griefs routine helps to mediate, and my strange, sheer wonder at my own survival. Where's home now? In the contingent present, in which anything can disappear, and where we're sometimes granted some form of grace.”

“What could be more absurd than the idea that genuine anti-Christian prejudice is a major force in American politics.”

Ideas Christian Force Religious Majors Prejudice Genuine Absurd American Politics Anti Christian

Author:Michael Kinsley

“If the world is an aggregate of relatively independent regions, then any assumption of universal laws is false and a demand for universal norms tyrannical: only brute force (or seductive deception) can then bend the different moralities so that they fit the prescriptions of a single ethical system. And indeed, the idea of universal laws of nature and society arose in connection with a life-and-death battle: the battle that gave Zeus the power over the Titans and all other gods and thus turned his laws into the laws of the universe.”

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