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“Yes, Philadelphia is horrible, but in a very interesting way. There were places there that had been allowed to decay, where there was so much fear and crime that just for a moment there was an opening to another world. It was fear, but it was so strong, and so magical, like a magnet, that your imagination was always sparking in PhiladelphiaI just have to think of Philadelphia now, and I get ideas, I hear the wind, and I'm off into the darkness somewhere.”

Thinking World Way Ideas Moments Strong Imagination Interesting Darkness Crime Wind Horrible Opening Decay Very Interesting Another World Philadelphia Magnet Interesting Ways Sparking

Author:David Lynch

“Was it possible that a bustling display of energy might only be a camouflage for a spiritual vacuum? The thought so impressed me that I mentioned it next day to the French purser, at whose table I was sitting. He nodded his agreement. "Stevenson is right," he said. "Indeed, if you will pardon my saying so, the idea applies particularly to you Americans. A lot of your countrymen keep so busy getting things done that they reach the end of their lives without ever having lived at all."”

Ifs Said Ideas Ends Done Might Spiritual Next Energy Sitting Tables Busy Agreement Display Impressed Next Day Pardon Vacuums Things Done Countrymen Getting Things Done Camouflage

Author:Arthur Gordon Webster

“A very real barrier to faith is this feeling of self-sufficiency, this unrealistic idea that one can accomplish everything by his or her own self. Some people have the conviction they must do it all alone. They have no faith in others. . . they are convinced that there is no one able to do the job as well as themselves. They refuse to admit that they may need the help of friends, doctor, minister, or even God.”

“The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors.”

Ideas Actors Playwright

Book:Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel

Source: Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel

“Everything worthwhile is a good idea, but did you ever notice there is more bad ideas that will work than there is good ones?”

Ideas Good Ideas Worthwhile Bad Ideas

Book:Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Roosevelt Years, 1933-1935

Source: Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Roosevelt Years, 1933-1935

“Andrew Jackson was the first one to think up the idea to promise everybody that if they will vote for you, you will give them an office when you get it, and the more times they vote for you, the bigger the office.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Firsts Ideas Promise Office Vote Bigger Voting More Time Andrew

Author:Will Rogers

“Now I am not unpatriotic, and I want to do my bit, so I hereby offer my services to my President, my country and my friends to do anything, outside of serving on a commission, that I can in this great movement. But you will have to give me some idea of where "confidence" is. And just who you want it restored to.”

Want Giving I Can Ideas Country Bits President Business Movement Offers My Friends Give Me Serving Unpatriotic

Book:Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929

Source: Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929

“Say, this new home building idea of President Hoover's sounds good. They are working out a lot of beneficial things. The only thing is it took 'em so long to think of any of 'em. We ought to have plans in case of depression, just like we do in case of fire, 'Walk, don't run, to the nearest exit.'”

Thinking Long Ideas Home Running Sound President Walks Business Cases Fire Plans Building Ought Work Out Ems Beneficial Exit New Home Hoover

Author:Will Rogers

“The trouble with the average person is that he doesn't trust himself sufficiently to create and deliver ideas.”

Persons Ideas Trouble Confidence Average Average Person

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“But the idea of science and systematic knowledge is wanting to our whole instruction alike, and not only to that of our business class ... In nothing do England and the Continent at the present moment more strikingly differ than in the prominence which is now given to the idea of science there, and the neglect in which this idea still lies here; a neglect so great that we hardly even know the use of the word science in its strict sense, and only employ it in a secondary and incorrect sense.”

Knows Stills Ideas Whole Moments Use Science Lying Given Education Class England Present Moment Neglect Instruction Continents Strict Systematic Prominence

Book:The Works of Matthew Arnold

Source: The Works of Matthew Arnold

“I love the idea of couture and its emphasis on creation. There's where I made my name - in design - and there's where I'd like to stay.”

Made Ideas Names Design Creation Emphasis Couture

Author:Jimmy Choo

“Never the less, at the age of fifteen, having never seen a writer, a poet, a publisher or a magazine editor, and having only the vaguest ideas of procedure, I began working on the profession I had chosen.”

Ideas Age Poet Profession Chosen Magazines Editors Fifteen Publishers Procedures Magazine Editors

Book:The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 1: Volume 1: The Shadow Kingdom

Source: The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 1: Volume 1: The Shadow Kingdom

“Initially, it was the unpractical in fashion that brought me to design my own line. I felt that it was much more attractive to cut clothes with respect for the living, three-dimensional body rather than to cover the body with decorative ideas.”

Ideas Body Three Felt Lines My Own Cutting Fashion Design Clothes Attractive

Author:Jil Sander

“Shortly after the 2004 Indonesian earthquake, I read that the earthquake had affected the rotation of the earth, shortening the length of our 24-hour day. Even though the change was extremely slight - only a few microseconds - I found the idea incredibly haunting.”

Ideas Earth Found Hours Length Affected Haunting Earthquakes Rotation

Author:Karen Thompson Walker

“No dance has ever turned out the way I thought it would, because I trust enough that I can start something with some ideas and then it takes itself somewhere.”

Way I Can Ideas Enough

Author:Mark Morris

“When Moses was alive, these pyramids were a thousand years old. Here began the history of architecture. Here people learned to measure time by a calendar, to plot the stars by astronomy and chart the earth by geometry. And here they developed that most awesome of all ideas - the idea of eternity.”

People Years Ideas Earth Stars Alive Thousand Eternity Architecture Astronomy Plot Thousand Years Moses Geometry Pyramids Calendars Most Awesome

Author:Walter Cronkite

“The idea that reincarnation means all beings eventually reach enlightenment is not true. Life does not have a fixed purpose. It just is.”

Mean Doe Ideas Purpose Enlightenment Fixed Reincarnation True Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We have ideas of God and nirvana or truth or enlightenment. These ideas will go away in nirvana because the suffusion is so complete and intense that nothing can be remembered.”

Ideas Enlightenment Intense Remembered Going Away

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It's a good idea to be in the physical presence of the enlightened teacher because it's not physical. You can hear the ocean from quite a ways away, but if you're standing right in front of it, it's easier.”

Ifs Way Ideas Teacher Fronts Easier Ocean Standing Enlightened Good Ideas

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Men, through the ideas they have, project a field of attention that limits women.”

Men Ideas Women Attention Fields Limits Projects Enlightenment Men Women

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Women must work doubly hard to overcome their conditioning in order to become enlightened. They must erase both conscious and unconscious ideas of sexual inferority that have been programmed into their awareness.”

Has Beens Ideas Hard Order Women Awareness Enlightenment Conscious Overcoming Unconscious Enlightened Conditioning Erase Conscious And Unconscious

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Each day that we live, we're taking in new information, ideas, concepts, experiences, and sensations. We need to consciously stand guard at the doors of our minds to make sure that whatever we're allowing to enter will cause our lives to be enriched, that the experiences we pursue will add to our stockpile of possibility.”

Needs Mind Ideas Motivational Causes Our Lives Doors Information Possibility Concepts Add Pursue Each Day Sensations Allowing New Information

Author:Tony Robbins

“Many people know what they want to have, but have no idea of who they want to be. Getting 'things' simply will not fulfill you. Only living and doing what you believe is 'the right thing' will give you that sense of inner strength that we all deserve.”

People Knows Want Giving Believe Ideas Motivational Deserve No Idea Right Thing Inner Strength

Book:Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial

Source: Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial

“To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to add the sheep was tautology.”

Men Ideas Originals Add Sheep Original Ideas Quaint Tautology

Book:Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist

Source: Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist

“Build pockets of stillness into your life. Meditate. Go for walks. Ride your bike going nowhere in particular. There is a creative purpose to daydreaming, even to boredom. The best ideas come to us when we stop actively trying to coax the muse into manifesting and let the fragments of experience float around our unconscious mind in order to click into new combinations. Without this essential stage of unconscious processing, the entire flow of the creative process is broken.”

“How does humility manifest itself in leadership and in life? A humble person is more concerned about what is right than about being right, about acting on good ideas than having the ideas, about embracing new truth than defending outdated position, about building the team than exalting self, about recognizing contribution than being recognized for making it.”

Persons Doe Ideas Self Motivational Acting Team Position Humility Building Concerned Humble Contribution Manifest Good Ideas Recognizing Outdated Humble Person

Book:The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything

Source: The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything

“The idea is that the savior came, and simply by the coming of the savior you're saved. Nonsense, human beings wish! If that were the case, we'd live in a perfect world.”

Ifs World Humans Ideas Wish Human Beings Perfect Christianity Cases Saved Nonsense Savior A Perfect World

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Feel eternity around you. Not as an idea, not as a nice intellectualization, but to really feel it; not to be some religious fanatic who's strung out on some weird idea of salvation to the exclusion of common sense.”

Feels Ideas Religious Common Christianity Nice Eternity Salvation Common Sense Fanatics Exclusion Religious Fanatics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“God is Godless. God is an idea that we have, another construct, a prop, which doesn't suggest that God doesn't exist. God is existence. But your idea of God and existence are two different things at the moment.”

Two Ideas Different Moments God Existence Different Things Constructs Props Two Different Things

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It's up to you to avail yourself to knowledge. Knowledge doesn't need you. The idea of a compassionate God was formulated, obviously, by someone who didn't want to do any work.”

Want Needs Ideas God Compassionate Need You Up To You

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Naturally, to follow dharma, we have to find out what it is. You have to struggle with it. The answer will not come easily. You will be swayed by your desires, conditioning, and those around you who have ideas about what you should do, what is proper, what is improper.”

Should Ideas Desire Answers Struggle Buddhism Dharma Conditioning

Author:Frederick Lenz

“So when we wake from the ignorance of this world, the dream of existence, all of the experiences that we have ever had fall away. The ideas of life and death, of rebirth, of reincarnation, karma, God, truth, knowledge - all these things fall away.”

World Ideas Dream Fall Existence This World Ignorance Yoga Karma Life And Death Reincarnation Rebirth

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The Self is infinite. The Self is eternal. You are that Self. Beyond words, thoughts, ideas, forms and belief systems. There is nothing but the Self.”

Ideas Self Form Belief Eternal Yoga Infinite Belief Systems

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You can enjoy the ideas of salvation, as long as you realize that there's no one to be saved.”

Long Ideas Enjoy Realizing Yoga Salvation Saved

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There won't be emptiness. Emptiness is just another idea, another illusion.”

Ideas Illusion Yoga Emptiness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Don't try and understand this with your mind. There will be no absolute knowing, no certainty in these thoughts and philosophies and ideas.”

Trying Mind Ideas Philosophy Knowing Yoga Absolutes Certainty

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The ego is a false perception of self. It's an idea, a transitory identity that we've picked up.”

Ideas Self Identity Ego Perception Yoga Transitory Bhakti Yoga False Perception

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you want to follow the path of love, it's a good idea to meditate on the heart chakra everyday. The heart chakra is in the center of the chest.”

Ifs Want Heart Ideas Path Yoga Everyday Chests Good Ideas Chakra Bhakti Yoga Path Of Love Heart Chakra

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Love yourself even when you don't measure up to your own expectations. You have a certain idea of what you should do and what you should be - it's only a silly idea that passes through your mind.”

Should Mind Ideas Certain Love You Expectations Yoga Silly Love Yourself Bhakti Yoga

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I mean, just because you're a musician doesn't mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.”

Way Mean Ideas Government Cities Musician Plumbing City Government

Author:Jerry Garcia

“Kirshna says its better to be a winner than a loser. It runs counter to what a lot of people whould think, because they have watered down, quasi-religious ideas about that which creates in enlightenment.”

People Thinking Ideas Running Religious Enlightenment Yoga Karma Winner Loser Karma Yoga

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In order to go beyond ideas to direct realization, it's essential to have a great deal of purity.”

Ideas Order Deals Buddhism Essentials Direct Realization Purity

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Purity is something that can be consciously developed. Expect to have impure moments, thoughts, and ideas. One day they will go away, and then there will be happiness.”

Ideas Moments Buddhism One Day Purity Going Away Thoughts And Ideas

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Everything that you are or conceive of yourself as being is just an idea. It's an illusion. It's a hallucination.”

Ideas Illusion Nothingness Hallucinations

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You are fighting against nothingness all the time by creating a series of shields that you call personality, life history, feelings, ideas, and ways of seeing.”

Way Ideas Feelings Fighting Seeing Personality Creating Series Nothingness Shields

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There is no evil, there's no bad; there's no good. These are human ideas. There's no creator, there's no creation; there's no God, there's no nirvana, there's no perfection. These are ideas.”

Humans Ideas Evil Creation Perfection Creator Nothingness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We aren't anything in particular. There is no self. There are only ideas and states of mind.”

Mind Ideas Self States Particular State Of Mind Nothingness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The reality is that the founding fathers were land speculators. The fact was that you couldn't vote in this country if you did not own land, and that was basically you had to be a white man who owned land. Now how did they get that land? They basically had to steal it from someone, and that would be probably the Indians. And so most of the initial founding fathers were, while they may have had some really nice ideas about democracy, they had a lot of issues with people of color. They had a lot of issues with people who held things that they coveted.”

People Ifs Men May Ideas Country Facts Reality Would Be Father White Democracy Issues Nice Land Color Vote Stealing White Man Founding Initials Really Nice Speculators

Author:Winona LaDuke

“The reason for not going out and sinning all you like is the same as the reason for not going out and putting your nose in a slicing machine: its dumb, stupid, and no fun. Some individual sins may have pleasure still attached to them because of the residual goodness of the realities they are abusing: adultery can indeed be pleasant and tying one on can amuse. But betrayal, jealousy, love grown cold, and the gray dawn of the morning after are nobody's idea of a good time.”

Source: Kingdom, Grace, Judgment: Paradox, Outrage, and Vindication in the Parables of Jesus

“In the name of friendship you should make sure your door is always open to listen. Don't feel you need to provide unsolicited possible solutions, answers or even ideas. Listening without judgment and offering assistance when asked should be enough. That's friendship's high calling.”

Needs Feels Should Ideas Enough Names Women Answers Doors Listening Calling Judgment Solutions Offering Assistance

Author:Amy Dickinson

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