A Quote by Bertrand Russell

The resistance to a new idea increases by the square of its importance.

Bertrand Russell

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Bertrand Russell
British - Celebrity
May 18, 1872 - February 2, 1970

The new idea either finds a champion or it dies. No ordinary involvement with a new idea provides the energy required to cope with the indifference and resistance that change provokes.

Tom Peters

Resistance is always possible! But we must engage in resistance first of all by developing the idea of a technological culture.

Paul Virilio

Happiness is the feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome.

Friedrich Nietzsche

... we all know the wag's definition of a philanthropist: a man whose charity increases directly as the square of the distance.

George Eliot

The importance of discretion increases with closeness to the top of a hierarchical organization.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I find the joy of the 'doing' increases. Creativity increases. Intuition increases. The pleasure of life grows. And negativity recedes.

David Lynch

At ABC Cocina and Kitchen, 90 percent of our produce and vegetables come from Union Square, and that's all from upstate New York farmers. We are simply committed to this idea of local, organic food.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

I have great memories of the old Times Square - wouldn't have missed being here to see that place for the world - but I can also deal with the new Times Square in the overall scheme of N.Y. City 2010.

Lee Ranaldo

I Use The Square To Begin My Solutions Because The Square Is A Non-choice, Really. In The Course Of Development, I Search For The Forces That Would Disprove The Square.

Louis Kahn

Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.

Salvatore Quasimodo

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

John Adams

It's absolutely of no importance who or what V was under the mask. He isn't a who or a what, he's an idea. The thing is, you couldn't continue it. Now and then the idea of a sequel has been raised, in vague forms, but I think it would be a bad idea. The story's finished.

David Lloyd

I love to play three-quarter iron shots. They take a lot of extra movement out of the swing, which increases my chance of hitting it solid with the face square to the target.

Gary Woodland

Resistance! Resistance! No oppressed people have ever secured their liberty without resistance!

Henry Highland Garnet

The idea (for the painting 'Room in New York', 1932, ed.) had been in my mind a long time before I painted it. It was suggested by glimpses of lighted interiors seen as I walked along city streets at night, probably near the district where I live (Washington Square, New York, fh) although it's no particular street or house, but is really a synthesis of many impressions.

Edward Hopper

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