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Letter "I" » Ideas
«Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.»
Author: Andre Malraux
(Historian, Novelist, Statesman)
| About:
Ability,
Action,
Courage,
Failure,
Ideas,
Risk-taking,
Success
| Keywords:
abilities, act, bet, betting, bet on, calculated, calculating, difference, ideas, I Bet You, more often than not, risk, successful, you bet
«Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.»
«Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.»
Author: Larry Flynt
(Publisher)
| About:
Ideas,
Religion
| Keywords:
caused, crutch, crutches, harm, idea, The Beginning
«Olivier's idea of introspection was to hood his eyes, dentalize his consonants and let the camera circle his blondined head like a sparrow looking for a place to deposit its droppings.»
Author: Robert Brustein
| About:
Ideas
| Keywords:
consonant, consonants, droppings, introspection, Olivier, sparrow
«No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.»
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
(Writer)
| About:
Ideas
| Keywords:
conference, conferences, grand, have died
«No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves»
Author: Mignon McLaughlin
(Author, Journalist)
| About:
Ideas
| Keywords:
brilliantly, moved, stated
«Ridicule has historically proven itself a rickety fence for great ideas.»
«Only the wise possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.»
«Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Commerce,
Ideas
| Keywords:
bid, cheap, clearance, clearance sale, commerce, dirt, dirt cheap, just in, sale, veritable, wander
«Religious ideas have sprung from the same need as all the other achievements of culture: from the necessity for defending itself against the crushing supremacy of nature»
Author: Sigmund Freud
(Founder)
| About:
Ideas,
Religion
| Keywords:
achievements, crushing, defending, sprung, supremacy
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