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Quotation with: "idea"
"To the very last, he [Napolean] had a kind of idea, that, namely,
of "la carriere ouverte aux talents"–the tools to him that can
handle them."
Author: John Gibson Lockhart
About: Ability
"Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life."
Author: Henry L. Doherty
About: Advice Experience Wisdom
"The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event."
Author: Roland Barthes
About: Advice Experience Wisdom
"No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day be antiquated...to seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality."
Author: Ellen Glasgow
About: Advice Experience Wisdom
"The Lion and the Mouse
A LION was awakened from sleep by a Mouse running over his face. Rising up angrily, he caught him and was about to kill him, when the Mouse piteously entreated, saying: If you would only spare my life, I would be sure to repay your kindness. The Lion laughed and let him go. It happened shortly after this that the Lion was caught by some hunters, who bound him by st ropes to the ground. The Mouse, recognizing his roar, came gnawed the rope with his teeth, and set him free, exclaim
You ridiculed the idea of my ever being able to help you, expecting to receive from me any repayment of your favor; I now you know that it is possible for even a Mouse to con benefits on a Lion."
Author: Aesop
About: Aesop Fables
"My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me."
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
About: Agreement
"A person's worth is contingent upon who he is, not upon what he does, or how much he has. The worth of a person, or a thing, or an idea, is in being, not in doing, not in having."
Author: Alice Mary Hilton
About: All About the Self
"A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires."
Author: Joseph Conrad
About: Ambition
"Nobody creates a fad. It just happens. People love going along with the idea of a beautiful pig. It's like a conspiracy."
Author: Jim Henson
About: Appearance
"An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them."
Author: Andy Warhol
About: Art and Artists
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