Best persons & ideas Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“To me, the whole idea of fame and I think it can be a real test of somebody, of who they are. You know, 'cause some strange things happen. I've seen some peculiar things as far as a person just living their life.”

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Author:Tobey Maguire

“Many persons entertain a prejudice against mathematical language, arising out of a confusion between the ideas of a mathematical science and an exact science. ...in reality, there is no such thing as an exact science.”

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Book:Political Economy

Source: Political Economy

“I'm a very private person, so I didn't like this idea of tweeting about me. And then I realized, 'Oh, this is actually a brilliant device in terms of interacting with the fans'. It's a lovely way to just get back, to thank the fans for watching the show. And to live tweet is kind of like getting the rewards of doing live theatre.”

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Author:Darby Stanchfield

“Most of the characteristics which make for success in writing are precisely those which we are all taught to repress ... the firm belief that you are an important person, that you are a lot smarter than most people, and that your ideas are so damned important that everybody should listen to you.”

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Author:Robert Anton Wilson

“I find the idea of vigilante justice very attractive. I like the idea that the murderer decides that this person has gone too far, and nothing will happen to him unless she does something to stop him.”

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Author:Donna Leon

“A scientist said, making a plea for exchange scholarships between nations, "The best way to send an idea is to wrap it up in a person." That was what happened at Christmas. The idea of divine love was wrapped up in a person.”

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Author:Halford Luccock

“There is no such thing as a boring person: everyone has stories and insights worth sharing. While on the road, we let our phones or laptops take up our attention. By doing that, we might miss out on the chance to learn and absorb ideas and inspiration from an unexpected source: our fellow travelers.”

“For me, MMA is like speed chess. It's like I'm herding a person into a certain position. Say my endgame is an arm bar. I'm not gonna actually take you and put you there. What I'm going to do is convince you that it's a good idea to move in the direction I want you to go.”

Want Persons Ideas Moving Certain Position Arms Speed Chess Bars Convince Mma Good Ideas I Want You Endgame

Author:Ronda Rousey

“You see for me, America is an idea. It is a stage for transformation. I felt when I came to Iowa City from Calcutta that suddenly I could be a new person . . . What America offers me is romanticism and hope . . . Suddenly, I found myself in a country where”

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Author:Bharati Mukherjee

“I've been watching politics for 35 or 40 years and you just never know. You can have one person win the Iowa caucus and then the whole picture changes ten minutes later. The same thing can happen again after New Hampshire. I have no idea what's going to happen with our country in the future.”

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Author:Jackie Mason

“I've gotten a lot more comfortable with the audition process, but there's something that really turned me off initially when I was younger, to auditioning. The idea that I couldn't get to the person that was actually making the film really frustrated me.”

Persons Ideas Film Process Comfortable Frustrated Auditions

Author:Amy Seimetz

“Oh, in France you can't defame an idea, only a person.”

Persons Ideas France

Author:Pierre Dukan

“The idea of celebrity has always been very strange to me because it's taking the focus away from the music and attaching it to a person. When we put someone on a pedestal or idolize them, we're giving our own power away.”

Giving Persons Ideas Focus Strange Pedestal

Author:Marketa Irglova

“The finest piece of mechanism in all the universe is the brain of man. The wise person develops his brain, and opens his mind to the genius and spirit of the world's great ideas. He will feel inspired with the purest and noblest thoughts that have ever animated the spirit of humanity.”

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Author:Alfred Armand Montapert

“Most persons think that a state in order to be happy ought to be large; but even if they are right, they have no idea of what is a large and what a small state.... To the size of states there is a limit, as there is to other things, plants, animals, implements; for none of these retain their natural power when they are too large or too small, but they either wholly lose their nature, or are spoiled.”

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Book:The Essential Aristotle

Source: The Essential Aristotle

“When a person is accustomed to one hundred and thirty-eight in the shade, his ideas about cold weather are not valuable.”

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Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“I do not believe that we can put into anyone ideas which are not in him already. As a rule there are in everyone all sorts of good ideas, ready like tinder. But much of this tinder catches fire, or catches it successfully, only when it meets some flame or spark from outside, i.e., from some other person.”

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Book:The Light Within Us

Source: The Light Within Us

“No other person's ideas, and none of my own ideas, are as authoritative as my experience.”

Persons Ideas My Own

Book:On becoming a person: a therapist's view of psychotherapy

Source: On becoming a person: a therapist's view of psychotherapy

“Taste tends to develop very unevenly. It's rare that the same person has good visual taste and good taste in people and taste in ideas.”

People Persons Ideas Taste Visuals Good Taste

Book:A Susan Sontag reader

Source: A Susan Sontag reader

“It's a wrong idea that a master is a finished person. Masters are very faulty; they haven't learned everything and they know it.”

Knows Persons Ideas Havens Masters Finished Wrong Ideas

Book:The Art Spirit

Source: The Art Spirit

“Content may by trivial. But I do not think that any person may pronounce either upon the weight or upon the triviality of an idea before its execution.”

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Book:The Shape of Content

Source: The Shape of Content

“I'm basically the idea person. I'm not physically involved in the production. I don't have the necessary abilities, so I go to the top people.”

People Persons Ideas Ability Involved Productions Collaboration

Author:Jeff Koons

“One problem with ideas, however valid, is that they are static and impersonal, whereas a person is active and dynamic.”

Persons Ideas Problem Active Static

Author:William Hull

“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

“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.”

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

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

“I really got consumed with the idea of how people who are deemed crazy or insane often have a firmer grasp on reality than normal people. The average person goes through life thinking it will go on forever.”

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Author:Youth Lagoon

“I really like Kickstarter because you don't have to be a Medici to fund the arts and sciences or to get behind a big idea or a person that sparks your imagination. It's a type of microfunding directed toward creators.”

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Author:Lisa Gansky

“When youre a new person and a new idea, you get invited to all these different things, and everybody wants a piece of you. And you want to be polite and say yes to everything, but it gets dangerous.”

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Author:Theophilus London

“The idea that there is a rational truth out there that is not embodied in a person's politics is something I can't understand or subscribe to.”

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Author:Natalie Jeremijenko

“If you are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right direction. Remember also that you are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.”

“I always have an idea before we even start the movie because if you hire the wrong person, within a couple of days you're going to know that and you're going to be really panicked.”

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Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“You don't want to be the smartest person in the room; you want to be the dumbest in the room. You want to be surrounded by other thinking people who are going to say something that makes you think, "Oh, my God, that's an amazing idea. Why didn't I think of that."”

People Thinking Want Persons Ideas Rooms Make You Think

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“For every age there is a popular idea about what madness is, what causes it, and how a mad person should look and behave; and it's usually these popular ideas, rather than those of medical professionals, that turn up in songs and stories and plays and books.”

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Author:Margaret Atwood

“Neither a person nor a nation can exist without some higher idea. And there is only one higher idea on earth, and it is the idea of the immortality of the human soul, for all other "higher" ideas of life by which humans might live derive from that idea alone.”

Humans Persons Ideas Soul Might Earth Nations Higher Immortality Human Soul

Book:Writer's Diary Volume 1: 1873-1876

Source: Writer's Diary Volume 1: 1873-1876

“I hated the company of other children. I wanted to be a grownup person, to be taken seriously. I hated the idea of childhood; I thought it was a moment of endless stupidity.”

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Author:Karl Lagerfeld

“There is, moreover, very little sense in preventing young people from giving expression to their ideas on the pretext that they have less experience than have older persons. There are many who may live a thousand years without encountering experience of any value. It could only be in a society of persons equally gifted that such an idea could have any meaning.”

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Book:Sex & Character

Source: Sex & Character

“There can be no more thrilling idea of intimacy that connecting with someone through the agency of the written word. Here we meet, on the page, naked and unadorned: shorn of class, race, gender, sexual identity, age and nationality. The reader I seek is a tautology, for he/she is simply exactly the person who wants to read what I have written...”

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Author:Will Self

“It distresses me deeply that ideas are not to be circulated freely in the USA if certain persons have their way. One of the things that was great about this country was that I could say anything and that everyone else could say anything and we would compare all possible ideas and arrive at opinions.”

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Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“I was one of the first people to almost actually vomit over hearing the use of the phrase "family values" and I pride myself on never having fallen for the idea that Barbara Bush was sweet and grandmotherly. I met Barbara Bush and, as I expected, she was a tank with eyes, not a nice person at all and why should that blow anybody away?”

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Author:Paula Poundstone

“The consciousness of a general idea has a certain "unity of the ego" in it, which is identical when it passes from one mind to another. It is, therefore, quite analogous to a person, and indeed, a person is only a particular kind of general idea.”

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Book:Peirce on Signs: Writings on Semiotic

Source: Peirce on Signs: Writings on Semiotic

“Because I was never a 'where do you see yourself in five years' person. I had no idea, and I didn't have a checklist, which really creates a lot less stress in your life.”

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Author:Jennifer Aniston

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