Ideas Quotes - Page 203

That's not a utopian vision. It is a set of ideas that we think are important to discuss. Those ideas largely have to do with sustainability of cities. The ability of cities to, over time, remain in balance with the resource streams that are available to them, and they have to do with social justice and equity of the fundamental conditions of satisfactory citizenship.

Ho Chi Minh was well aware that the enemy possessed more firepower than did his own forces, and sought to use what he viewed as the superior political and moral position of his own revolutionary movement as a trump card to defeat a well-armed adversary. These ideas were originally generated during his early years as a revolutionary in the 1920s and 1930s, and continued to influence his recommendations in the wars against the French (1946-1954) and the United States (1959-1965).

There is no such thing as a false idea.

Leonardo Da Vinci. Leonardo is arguably the world's most famous polymath. So many thoughts and so many different ideas!

Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.

Wealth flows from energy and ideas.

I want to represent the idea that you really can make what you want I believe I can create whatever I want to create.

Thank God for the creative ideas that enrich life by adding your own creative contributions to human progress

The basic idea is to shove all fundamental difficulties onto the neutron and to do quantum mechanics in the nucleus.

What could be more superstitious than the idea that money brings forth food?

Innovation- any new idea-by definition will not be accepted at first. It takes repeated attempts, endless demonstrations, monotonous rehearsals before innovation can be accepted and internalized by an organization. This requires courageous patience.

I have no idea on timing. It’s easier to tell what will happen than when it will happen. I would say that what is going on in terms of trade policy is going to have very important consequences.

Trust and respect are two-way streets. We want the horse to accept us as leaders of the herd, to guide them safely and to provide protection and comfort. In return, they will give us their respect, and willing submission to our ideas about what to do next, and when and where. But this respect can only be based on well deserved trust.

I tried to follow Ben Graham's ideas.

Whenever we accept an idea as authority instead of as instrument, an idol is set up. We worship the plough, and not the fruit.

When good ideas get put to bad use, it is the fault of the user, not the idea.

Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas.

A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.

Money doesn't excite me - my ideas excite me.

We are astonished at thought, but sensation is equally wonderful.

Let us leave every man at liberty to seek into him and to lose himself in his ideas.

We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible being: there is certainly some difference between the ideas of Newton and the dung of a mule. Newton's intelligence, therefore, came from another intelligence

Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.

There’s this idea that somehow you’ve got to keep changing things, and as often as possible. Maybe if people just decided not to buy anything for a while, they’d get a chance to think about what they wanted; what they really liked.

I was so upset with what was going on in the world. I just couldn't stand the idea of being people tortured and that we even had such a thing as war. I hated the older generation, who had not done anything about it. Punk was a call-to-arms for me.