Idea Quotes (page 137)

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• good
• thinking
• value

You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value. Herman Hesse

• eyes
• life
• people

All my life one of my greatest desires has been to travel-to see and touch unknown countries, to swim in unknown seas, to circle the globe, observing new lands, seas, people, and ideas with insatiable appetite, to see everything for the first time and for the last time, casting a slow, prolonged glance, then to close my eyes and feel the riches deposit themselves inside me calmly or stormily according to their pleasure, until time passes them at last through its fine sieve, straining the... Nikos Kazantzakis

• good
• conversational
• likely

Ah, good conversation - there's nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing. Edith Wharton

• history
• political
• goals

...nothing that is historical can relate itself, from its own ground, to anything messianic. Therefore, the Kingdom of God is not the telos of the historical dynamic; it cannot be established as a goal. From the standpoint of history, it is not the goal but the terminus [Ende]. Therefore, the secular order cannot be built on the idea of the Divine Kingdom, and theocracy has no political but only a religious meaning. Walter Benjamin

• thinking you
• thinking
• effectively

I think....you still have no idea. The effect you can have. Suzanne Collins

• quality
• play
• played

The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas. George Bernard Shaw

• business
• school
• fun

Fun is at the core of the way I like to do business and it has been key to everything I've done from the outset. More than any other element, fun is the secret of Virgin's success. I am aware that the ideas of business as being fun and creative goes right against the grain of convention, and it's certainly not how the they teach it at some of those business schools, where business means hard grind and lots of 'discounted cash flows' and net' present values'. Richard Branson

• people
• giving
• sharing

The idea that I can't share my problems with other people makes me not give a shit about their problems. Chuck Palahniuk

• book
• crying
• booking

Books are flesh-and-blood ideas and cry out, silently, when put to the torch Ray Bradbury

• different
• fitness
• true

So this was different. I was amazing now - to them and to myself. It was like I had been born to be a vampire. The idea made me want to laugh, but it also made me want to sing. I had found my true place in the world, the place I fit, the place I shined. Stephenie Meyer

• doubt
• serious
• people

Fred dislikes the idea going into the ministry partly because he doesn't like "feeling obligated to look serious", and he centers his doubts on "what people expect of a clergyman". George Eliot

• true
• manly
• obsess

And is usually true of a man of one idea, [Charles] became obsessed. John Steinbeck

• caring
• passion
• evening

He did not care upon what terms he satisfied his passion. He had even a mad, melodramatic idea to drug her. W. Somerset Maugham

• culture
• mind
• innovation

America is the greatest engine of innovation that has ever existed, and it can't be duplicated anytime soon, because it is the product of a multitude of factors: extreme freedom of thought, an emphasis on independent thinking, a steady immigration of new minds, a risk-taking culture with no stigma attached to trying and failing, a noncorrupt bureaucracy, and financial markets and a venture capital system that are unrivaled at taking new ideas and turning them into global products. Thomas Friedman

• great
• logic
• people

They always believe that 'things are in a bad way now,' but they 'haven't any faith in these idealists.' One minute they call Wilson 'just a dreamer, not practical'- a year later they rail at him for making his dreams realities. They haven't clear logical ideas on one single subject except a sturdy, stolid opposition to all change. They don't think uneducated people should be highly paid, but they won't see that if they don't pay the uneducated people their children are going to be uneducated... F. Scott Fitzgerald