Quotes About Idea

Can we account for instinct?' said Monte Cristo. 'Are there not some places where we seem to breathe sadness? — why, we cannot tell. It is a chain of recollections — an idea which carries you back to other times, to other places — which, very likely, have no connection with the present time and place.

But the dreadful thing about wicked ideas is that bit by bit wicked minds can become accustomed to them.

William closed his eyes in sheer ecstasy. "Look, I know it's absolutely no notice at all, but would you by any chance be free for dinner tonight?" he asked. Again there was a silence. And then, once again, came the words to boost any heart—even that of a middle-aged wine dealer, a failed Master of Wine, and a failed everything else—"What a lovely idea! Yes, of course.

Historians are trained to look for personal biography in every idea, no matter how scientifically objective it is supposed to be, and to look for the influence of contemporary opinion on the rise and fall of scientific theories.

I was revisiting the whole black spandex cat burglar idea. Maybe you could sneak out under cover of darkness, shimmy down a rope from my window." "Okay, you've given that particular scenario way too much thought.

The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.

In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.

La sintaxis de los procesos mentales, asociada a la experiencia del yo, es un proceso, por lo que la tesis de este libro conceptualiza al yo como una idea que se ve reforzada.

The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein—it rejects it." —P. B. Medawar

When we hear about a large forest fire, of course, we don't think that there must have been anything special about the spark that started it. Indeed, such an idea would be laughable. Yet when we see something special happen in the social world, we are instantly drawn to the idea that whoever started it must have been special also.

It is ironic in a way that the law of the few is portrayed as a counterintuitive idea because in fact we're so used to thinking in terms of special people that the claim that a few special people do the bulk of the work is actually extremely natural.

to Chadron, Herschel had a brainstorm.

Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion.

It is better to entertain an idea than to take home to live with you for the rest of your life.

What is a business? It's simply an idea that makes someone else's life better

The pitching coach was bugged by the author's technique because he had never seen anyone do it before, and besides, it wasn't the coach's idea.

There is nothing in nature which approximates to the idea of a hospice.

You go into the office and take a book or two from the shelves. You read a few lines, like your life depended on reading 'em right. But you know your life doesn't depend on anything that makes sense, and you wonder where in the hell you got the idea it did; and you begin to get sore.

Sleep is just a good idea. I bow to the god caffeine.

Life is so beautiful that even the idea of death must be born before it can be realized.

it was the beginning of November, and New York City was toying with the idea of winter.

We don't catch hold of an idea, rather the idea catches hold of us and enslaves us and whips us into the arena so that we, forced to be gladiators, fight for it.

And suddenly the idea comes into your head that perhaps now, at this very moment while you are passing by, in one of the rooms behind those drab shutters, at a worm-eaten desk, among bundles of papers tied up with red or green tape, with scratchy old-fashioned penstrokes, your fate is being inscribed

But now we know there has been no one great disaster—only the slow-motion disaster of capitalism converting every living thing and idea into property.