#idea

Suffering is part of the divine idea. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#idea #part #suffering

Colonialism is an idea born in the West that drives Western countries - like France, Italy, Belgium, Great Britain - to occupy countries outside of Europe. ↗

— Ahmed Ben Bella

#born #britain #colonialism #countries #drives

When you fall head over heels for someone, you're not falling in love with who they are as a person; you're falling in love with your idea of love. ↗

— Maria Bello

#falling #falling in love #head #heels #idea

Although all new ideas are born in France, they are not readily adopted there. It seems that they must first commence to prosper in a foreign country. ↗

— Sarah Bernhardt

#although #born #commence #country #first

Secrecy is an idea which presumes men can't read minds to each other. ↗

— Toba Beta

#planted #secrecy #men

Men think that it is essential that the "Nation" have commerce, and export ice, and talk through a telegraph, and ride thirty miles an hour, without a doubt, wether they do or not; but whether we should live like baboons or like men, is a little uncertain. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#men

If someone wanted to be a runner, you don't tell them to think about running, you tell them to run. And the same simple idea applies to writing, I hope. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#interview #motivational #rule #the-guardian #writing

The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, "Oh, the book is better. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#books #ideas #movies #movies

When I am ..... completely myself, entirely alone... or during the night when I cannot sleep, it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly. Whence and how these ideas come I know not nor can I force them. ↗

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#ideas #music #music

This is not the wisdom of the crowd, but the wisdom of someone in the crowd. It’s not that the network itself is smart; it’s that the individuals get smarter because they’re connected to the network. ↗

— Steven Johnson

#innovation #insightful #people #nature