#idea

A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties. ↗

— Harriet Martineau

#duties #great #great ideas #ideas #performs

I had no idea what to expect when we did Ladies' Night. I didn't think it was going to get nominated for a Grammy. I didn't know that we would have to perform on the MTV Awards show. ↗

— Angie Martinez

#did #expect #get #going #grammy

It's not only imagination, it's the distortion of the vision. You suddenly think, This person is idealistic, this person is strong, this person has dreams, when you know better most of the time. You put what you want to see on people. ↗

— Olivier Martinez

#distortion #dreams #idealistic #imagination #know

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. ↗

— Karl Marx

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Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state. ↗

— Karl Marx

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Very often, if I know the orchestra doesn't know a piece or it's a new piece, I have main ideas about it. But then we start to play and I never talk about places where they played so beautiful and so clear in the beginning that there is nothing to say. ↗

— Kurt Masur

#beautiful #beginning #clear #i #ideas

I mean, the idea that Bar could have sent him off on a Grand Tour. But he wasn't the least bit interested. Why? Why isn't he interested in the world? Because here's the bad news for him: He's in the world now. ↗

— Chris Matthews

#bad news #bar #because #bit #could

In fiction, you have a rough idea what's coming up next - sometimes you even make a little outline - but in fact you don't know. Each day is a whole new - and for me, a very invigorating - experience. ↗

— Peter Matthiessen

#day #each #even #experience #fact

The idea is that if we can put our own people through something almost as bad as what they might have to go through if they were taken captive, they will inoculate themselves. ↗

— Jane Mayer

#bad #captive #go #idea #might

One of the main things I do is focus on ideas and what stories we decide to tell, but probably the biggest part of my job I'd say is working on the storyboards. ↗

— Craig McCracken

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