Top 100 Quotes About Ideally

#1. Ideally, the writer needs no audience other than the few who understand that it is immodest and greedy to want more.

Gore Vidal

#2. And that was always our plan. Do well in the first three states, and then compete and have a very strong night on Super Tuesday. I think we're ideally positioned to do exactly that.

Ted Cruz

#3. I think that ideally that is how a company works. It becomes a place of ideas, not a place of position.

Jack Welch

#4. Anything has a rhythm to it, comedy or drama. There has to be a musicality to it. And everybody can't play the same instrument, ideally. But I think that we all have the same comedic tendencies, and that's why it works. We all sort of agree with what's funny.

Bradley Cooper

#5. A cabaret song has got to be written - for the middle voice, ideally - because you've got to hear the wit of the words. And a cabaret song gives the singer room to act, more even than an opera singer.

James Fenton

#6. Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

Henry Adams

#7. Ideally, I like to integrate the human issues into the suspense story itself.

Jeffery Deaver

#8. Ideally, six- and seven-year-olds should be singing every day, at various times of the day, with their regular classroom teacher.

Jean Ashworth Bartle

#9. Tech companies don't exist in a bubble; they draw from and feed into a larger community. Ideally, the relationship is symbiotic.

Ryan Holmes

#10. Dialogue is the ideal means of showing what is between the characters. It crystallizes relationships. It should, ideally, be so effective as to make analysis or explanation of the relationships between the characters unnecessary.

Elizabeth Bowen

#11. I don't really give much thought to the roles that I'd ideally love to play.

Dylan O'Brien

#12. The U.S. Constitution was meant to be universal, not just something that only America would observe. The principle of defending liberty for all people ideally should apply everywhere in the world.

Mark Skousen

#13. I usually work seven days a week and rarely take vacations, which is both lame and unsustainable. I don't mind the idea of writing seven days a week, I suppose. Getting some work done early in the morning. But ideally I would love to take one day a week off.

Brad Listi

#14. To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject.

Edmund Husserl

#15. When one steals a flying balloon and animates it to fly over Paris, one should, ideally, have some idea how said balloon normally works.

Cassandra Clare

#16. Trust that whatever you are dealing with, whatever doorway to crisis you experience, it is leading you to a greater lesson in liwing where ideally the power of love is what you learn. Forgive, and broadcast your excitement to be alive.

Barbara Marciniak

#17. What little wilderness remains displays the patterns we must return to, if our species and as many others as now remain are to persist here a while. Ideally this would call for a broad cultural rapprochment with the wild, a long overdue armistice in civilization's war upon it.

Stephanie Mills

#18. Ideally you do want people to treat you professionally in return, but not everyone necessarily does that.

Henry Cavill

#19. A new phrase was making the rounds in Berlin, to be deployed upon encountering a friend or acquaintance on the street, ideally with a sardonic lift of one eyebrow: "Lebst du noch?" Which meant, "Are you still among the living?

Erik Larson

#20. I think sometimes I get carried away, like I'm speaking to an imaginary audience rather than just trying to figure something out for myself. Ideally, I try to balance that - that I'm asking these questions of myself, how does this work, why does this happen, what's going on here.

David Byrne

#21. Ideally a hug should be done long and hard enough to fit all the broken pieces together.

Jury Nel

#22. Ideally the world would look like Davos, where there's more security than we can even see on the street.

Bill Owens

#23. My life, my family and my friends are back in the U.K., so ideally I would love the kind of career that is split between London and New York.

Samuel Barnett

#24. We all put obstacles in our own path toward personal style, myself included. If we understood why we constructed these practical and emotional obstacles, we might move beyond it to healthier, happier perceptions of ourselves and, ideally, a better sense of self-esteem.

Stacy London

#25. There's an old saying among scientific guys: "You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs, ideally by dropping a cement truck on them from a crane."

Dave Barry

#26. You also develop greater capacity to bounce back from a crisis, learn from it, and achieve revitalization. Ideally, as you become more adept at managing disruption and skilled at resilience

Judith Rodin

#27. Ideally, you don't speak until you have something honest to say.

T. J. Jagodowski

#28. For a photographer, sharks are a stirring subject, possessing a perfect blend of grace and power. They have been sculpted by evolution and are ideally suited for whichever ecosystem they inhabit, from coral reefs to the open ocean.

Brian Skerry

#29. As a good rule of thumb, you want to secure 3-months of living expenses on the side, just in case shit hits the fan. Ideally, you'll want a 6-month rainy-day fund because it never hurts to fall back on much more.

Jay Breezy

#30. Ideally a book would have no order in it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

Raoul Vaneigem

#31. I felt from time to time that shooting live music is the most purely cinematic thing you can do. Ideally, the cinema is becoming one with the music. There is little artifice involved. There's no acting. I love it.

Jonathan Demme

#32. A utopia is an ideally perfect place. Who's ideas are we going by?

Felicity Mikkel Nacht

#33. To finish a marathon in less than 4 hours, you should ideally be a runner for a couple of years, have completed a half marathon, or be extremely determined and competitive.

Richard Bond

#34. Many objects of our three-dimensional perceptual world are not only chiral but appear in nature in two versions, related at least ideally, as a chiral object and its mirror image.

Vladimir Prelog

#35. If this is not already a habit of yours, now is the time to begin reading a portion of the Bible every day. Ideally, read it together as husband and wife - in the morning, perhaps, or before bed.

Alex Kendrick

#36. Create tools that enable people to make decisions at the same level, ideally, of fidelity that that you would make them yourself.

Keith Rabois

#37. Ideally, I'd like to be the eternal novice, for then only the surprises would be endless.

Keith Jarrett

#38. Ideally, you should be your own hero, just as I am mine.

Michael Bywater

#39. I think perfect dates involve walking a lot, and not a bunch of driving around in cars. Ideally, you can walk together and go to a restaurant, and then walk from there to another nice place - this is, I guess, because of really great dates that I've had with my wife here in Portland.

James Mercer

#40. government is legitimate not so much because it represents the 'general will', but because its policies are, ideally and counterfactually, the result of the public deliberation of all who are concerned by the decision

Frederic Vandenberghe

#41. In my heart and soul, I am a West Country man, and ideally, my weekends are spent there.

Ben Elliot

#42. Ideally, Competition should be a wonderful vicious circle of being inspired and inspiring others to achieve excellence and being the best version of themselves.

Tina Sequeira

#43. For most of my life, I've been working under the paradigm that my behavior should, ideally, have a logical basis. But if you live biblically, this is not true. I have to adjust my brain to this. You

A. J. Jacobs

#44. Ideally, most of the top executives of a company should be on Foundational tours.

Reid Hoffman

#45. Creativity is the result of a struggle between vitality and form. As anyone who has tried to write a sonnet or scan poetry, is aware, the form ideally do not take away from the creativity but may add to it.

Rollo May

#46. If a painter, then, paints a picture of an ideally beautiful man, complete to the last detail, is he any the worse painter because he cannot show that such a man could really exist?

Plato

#47. It is a technique ideally suited to prevent physical and mental illness and to protect the body generally, developing an inevitable sense of self-reliance and assurance.

Yehudi Menuhin

#48. Ideally, of course, a relationship is best, but then how many people are capable of deep feeling? Practically none.

Gore Vidal

#49. Every news organization should ideally be as broadly representative as possible.

Judy Woodruff

#50. So it comes down to scarcity, one product or service having qualities you won't find everywhere or ideally, anywhere. It's the job of every brand to seek that out as their standard, their stamp.

David Brier

#51. You spend all this time inside, alone, writing. And then it becomes about travel and new places and new people. And I do love talking to people about the book, but ideally, I like a little less disruptive lifestyle, I like it when things are more organized.

Garance Dore

#52. If you believe that some day it's going to happen, some day it probably will happen. You just have to make sure you're there when it's happening, and ideally you're at the front of the parade, and the principle beneficiary of when it happens.

Steve Case

#53. I am sometimes asked about the concept or definition of a 'public intellectual,' and though I find the whole idea faintly silly, I believe it should ideally mean that the person so identified is self-sustaining and autonomously financed. Susan was pre-eminently one such.

Christopher Hitchens

#54. I'm sure every designer has a certain person in mind who they would ideally like to wear their clothes, but the problem is that a lot of the time that person doesn't actually exist, unless she is a 15-year-old model.

Kate Upton

#55. The mentor-mentee relationship is ideally like that of the guru and disciple: motivated by the desire of the guru to impart knowledge to the disciple.

Vivek Wadhwa

#56. If there's one single thing that I do every single time, it's require references and, ideally, at least one reference from every company they've worked at.

Ivanka Trump

#57. Ideally, when Christians meet, as Christians do, to take counsel together, their purpose is not ( or should not be) to ascertain what is the mind of the majority but what is the mind of the Holy Spirit - something which may be quite different.

Margaret Thatcher

#58. Jokes are ideally pleasurable. They are an act of assassination without a corpse, a moment of total annihilation that paradoxically makes anything possible.

Penelope Gilliatt

#59. Ideally I would like the work to be a hybrid between painting and photography.

John Baldessari

#60. He only has freedom who ideally loves freedom himself and is glad to extend it to others. He who cares to have slaves must chain himself to them. He who builds walls to create exclusion for others builds walls across his own freedom. He who distrusts freedom in others loses his moral right to it.

Rabindranath Tagore

#61. Ideally, I would love to mix singing and acting, but you can only be a pop star for so many years. I mean, at 30 it's a little bit sad, right?

Rachel Stevens

#62. It's so technical. It's nothing personal. You're not fighting really, you're missing each other by a half of foot at least, ideally more and you get a few knocks and bruises. But with the kissing, you do kiss someone. Its lips on lips.

Colin Farrell

#63. When you bring something truly new to the world, brace. Having an impact is not usually a pleasant experience. Sometimes the hardest part of creating is not having an idea but saving an idea, ideally while also saving yourself.

Kevin Ashton

#64. Ideally I would start by racing my athletes once every two weeks. But, such a program has to be flexible because some runners improve better with weekly races or even bi-weekly races. A coach has to adjust to what is best for the runner.

Gerry Lindgren

#65. Although a great restaurant experience must include great food, a bad restaurant experience can be achieved through bad service alone. Ideally, service is invisible. You notice it only when something goes wrong.

Dana Spiotta

#66. Virtual reality is the representation of possible worlds and possible selves, with the aim of making them appear as real as possible - ideally, by creating a subjective sense of "presence" and full immersion in the user.

Thomas Metzinger

#67. What we call barbecuing in this country is actually direct grilling. In many countries, it also means cooking in an enclosed box with a heat source, ideally wood, all year round.

Jamie Oliver

#68. I ideally would like to do three films every year. Every day, I pray for it. But I should like a script before I sign on a film.

Shahid Kapoor

#69. Yeah. Ideally I'd like to see us leave a swath of destruction that can be seen from orbit. Barring that, let's at least try to destroy something precious and beautiful that can never be replaced,

Joe Hill

#70. Of course we can always imagine more perfect conditions, how it should be ideally, how everyone should behave. But it is not our task to create an ideal. It's our task to see how it is, and to learn from the world as it is. For the awakening of the heart, conditions are always good enough.

Ajahn Sumedho

#71. Ideally, I'd like every issue to include a diverse group of stories that meet the qualifications sketched above, but covering a wide range of specific matter and flavour.

Stanley Schmidt

#72. If I ideally can, I'd do a comedy, and then I would do something where I'm a mental patient, and then I'd go back and do a comedy so I can continue to express myself in different ways.

Mircea Monroe

#73. It's important to know the jam-packed power of certain foods that will not only protect you from a myriad of health issues, but also will help you with hormone balance. Ideally, your food choices should be organic and pesticide free.

Suzanne Somers

#74. I feel the horror audience is a great audience, and I would ideally make a movie that would give them as much energy as they're willing to give to the picture.

Sam Raimi

#75. I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island.

Adam Mansbach

#76. Ideally, the star will be replaced within eight hours. This sends the message that no single individual is bigger than the company.

Jack Welch

#77. Ideally, really ideally, you want to get to a place where you can have creative control over the material you do - choices, at least, anyway. And you want your choice of script and role. But do you really want your life to revolve around trying to maintain your privacy?

Jai Courtney

#78. Generally my typical books have lots of twists and turns a big surprise ending and then usually another surprise at the end and ideally, as in Garden of Beasts, we get to the very end and we find at the last few pages that there's yet another surprise.

Jeffery Deaver

#79. I think one of the reasons I love science fiction so much is that it's - when it's ideally done right, it's a reflection on ourselves.

Don Hertzfeldt

#80. Ideally, I would like to be in a position where I represent 100 guys in the NFL, to be in a position where I could control whether some teams win or lose.

Drew Rosenhaus

#81. You're confronted with the quandary: do I grind things to a halt? Ideally you would, but I have better things to do than educate people.

Wentworth Miller

#82. Sleep was the ideally work-compatible girl he ought to have married in the first place. Perfectly submissive, infinitely forgiving, and so respectable you could take her to church.

Jonathan Franzen

#83. None of us have yet seen an ideally perfect man, and yet without that ideal we cannot progress.

Swami Vivekananda

#84. No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive, he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.

Orison Swett Marden

#85. Your education never stops and college is just the beginning. You come out of college with a huge advantage in that you've ideally and more times than not you've come out with a love of learning and that's what matters above all.

David McCullough

#86. With Germany conquered, the Kremlin checkmated, Japan converted, it became easier - safer - to peek around looking for someone to fear ... and maybe do something about. Ideally, somebody far away, from a country about which almost nothing was known.

David Douglas Duncan

#87. With the advent of 24-hour Sky News, the News Flash has been greatly devalued. Time was, when something unimaginably horrendous had to happen before it was deemed worthy of a News Flash. At least one, preferably two, and ideally all four horsemen of the apocalypse would have to be involved.

Declan Lynch

#88. Ideally, government is the means by which all the individual wills are assured complete freedom of moral choice and at the same time prevented from ever clashing.

W. H. Auden

#89. Sex education, including its spiritual aspects, should be part of a broad health and moral education from kindergarten through grade twelve, ideally carried out harmoniously by parents and teachers.

Benjamin Spock

#90. There are a lot of great jokes you can sit down and write, but that's just a written joke, versus the comedy of the situation. Ideally, you're pulling as much comedy out of the situation as you can.

John Mulaney

#91. Ideally, a lady will have three toys at once. One to romance her, one to bed her, and one to adorn her with very expensive jewelry.

Marissa Meyer

#92. Humans are not ideally set up to understand logic; they are ideally set up to understand stories.

Roger Schank

#93. Reading while I'm writing ideally inspires my competitive side. When I read great writers, I want to be a better writer.

Amity Gaige

#94. Gay marriage, inherently and ideally based on love and companionship, and not on gender-defined social and economic power, will be key to our ability to re-imagined straight marriage.

Rebecca Traister

#95. Everyone by nature was suited to a particular activity, which ideally they would pursue.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#96. Destination is, ideally, where one should stop; and ideally, one should not stop. Practically, destination of a great man is where he wants to stop; of a common man, where he has to. The one ends with Will, the other with Reason. Morality is always pursued, never reached!

Raheel Farooq

#97. I was worried before I saw the play, thinking I don't really want to see a play about Thomas Merton. He probably wouldn't have either, ideally. Then it isn't. It's more about us and it's about our relationship to what he may or may not have thought about. It's its own thing completely.

Will Oldham

#98. Ideally, each week, I'd like to have rad, intelligent, creative, funny guests with different takes on the world of music. I will ask them all what their favorite blink-182 song is, and what they like best about me as a person.

Mark Hoppus

#99. I was worried on a personal level because I wanted to be slightly taller than I am, ideally. But I've now accepted it. Basically, I came to the conclusion a while ago that you can either be really bitter about it or you can make loads of funny jokes.

Daniel Radcliffe

#100. At a minimum the name should puzzle foreigners - this is a basic requirement of most British institutions - and ideally it should excite long and inconclusive debate, defy all logical explanation, and evoke images that border on the surreal. Among

Bill Bryson

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