Quotes of: Vague-idea Keyword

Hope is not some abstract, softheaded concept. It is an idea with an engine.

Take Charge of Your Talent: Three Keys to Thriving in Your Career, Organization, and Life

Angie: "How do I pitch these ideas to her?" Mira: "From a distance, preferably wearing body armor.

The Things We Do for Love

All translations are made up" opined Vikram, "Languages are different for a reason. You can't move ideas between them without losing something

Alif the Unseen

We do not need to operate according to the idea of a predetermined program for our lives.

Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

It is essential that you follow your own idea of passion, even if to others it looks like suffering.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

All of us, at some point in life, get brilliant ideas...only a few of us have the courage to take the next step.

From the Rat Race to Financial Freedom

The writers are writing human beings, and they're writing about the human condition and how difficult it is to function in that condition. I think it's one of the charms of the show, the idea of redemption and working towards becoming better people, ...

George Dzundza

In a fit of pique, I said to my agent, 'I'm going to write something you can sell.' The idea was to write a straight page-turner, with no literary conceits.

Glen Duncan

I loved the opportunity to just transform my voice. I loved the idea of doing impressions and mimicking and playing around with the spectrum of your own voice. That's what I enjoy most about doing voice-overs.

Justin Long

Fiction isn't made by scraping the bones of topicality for the last shreds and sinews, to be processed into mechanically recovered prose. Like journalism, it deals in ideas as well as facts, but also in metaphors, symbols and myths.

Hilary Mantel

You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject.

Henri Matisse

The concept of portraying evil and then destroying it - I know this is considered mainstream, but I think it is rotten. This idea that whenever something evil happens someone particular can be blamed and punished for it, in life and in politics is ho...

Hayao Miyazaki

I don't really follow fashion exactly, but I've always been very interested in the way that you present yourself as an expression of yourself, so that's my idea of fashion and style from a personal point of view.

Lenora Crichlow

The country needs more than one-party dominance, as much as I believe the Democratic Party is the party for the middle class... We need to have a marketplace of ideas.

Nancy Pelosi

It is not entirely true that a TV producer or reporter has complete control over the contents of programs. The interests and inclinations of the audience have as much to do with the what is on television as do the ideas of the producer and reporter.

Neil Postman

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

Norman Vincent Peale

I no longer care about the financial system. I gave them my roadmap. OK? Thanks, bye. I've no idea what's going on. I'm disconnected. I'm totally disengaged.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The idea of atomic energy is illusionary but it has taken so powerful a hold on the minds, that although I have preached against it for twenty-five years, there are still some who believe it to be realizable.

Nikola Tesla

To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The part of Stripe that I've always found most interesting is the idea of facilitating new commerce that wouldn't otherwise happen. Payouts is turning out to be a big part of that. These new networks are efficient, intelligent replacements for offlin...

Patrick Collison

So in the first draft, I'm inventing people and place with a broad schematic idea of what's going to happen. In the process, of course, I discover all sorts of bigger and more substantial things.

Peter Carey