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  • When developing an idea, I remind myself not to start with compromise. I envision the ideal manifestation of the idea, as if I had no limits in resources, materials, or permission.

    "Imagination Becomes Reality" by Janet Echelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 13, 2012.
  • Up to that time I never realized that I possessed any particular gift of discovery, but Lord Rayleigh, whom I always considered as an ideal man of science, had said so and if that was the case, I felt that I should concentrate on some big idea.

    Men   Discovery   Ideas  
    Nikola Tesla (2016). “My Inventions: And Other Writings”, p.40, Courier Dover Publications
  • There is no such thing as an ideal man. The ideal man is the man you love at the moment.

    Men   Dating   He Man  
  • The Ideal Man should talk to us as if we were goddesses, and treat us as if we were children. He should refuse all our serious requests, and gratify every one of our whims. He should encourage us to have caprices, and forbid us to have missions. He should always say much more than he means, and always mean much more than he says.

    Children   Mean   Men  
    Oscar Wilde (1988). “The complete plays”, Methuen Drama
  • To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.

    Men   Thinking   Certain  
    Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”
  • The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy.

    Single   Men   Silence  
  • In the supremacy of self-control consists one of the perfections of the ideal man.

    Men   Self   Perfection  
  • Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.

    Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt
  • The fault with all religions like Christianity is that they have one set of rules for all. But Hindu religion is suited to all grades of religious aspiration and progress. It contains all the ideals in their perfect form. For example, the ideal of Shanta or blessedness is to be found in Vasishtha; that of love in Krishna; that of duty in Rama and Sita; and that of intellect in Shukadeva. Study the characters of these and of other ideal men. Adopt one which suits you best.

    Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2614, Manonmani Publishers
  • my definition of the ideal man is 'that particular man with whom a woman happens to be in love at that particular time.

  • Ideal mental health, like freedom, exists for one person only if it exists for all people.

    Phyllis Chesler (1973). “Women & madness”
  • The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the noblest manner that the circumstances allow.

    "Nicomachean Ethics". Book by Aristotle, I, 1101a, www.perseus.tufts.edu.
  • I happen to think we’ve set our ideal on the wrong objects; I happen to think that the greatest ideal man can set before himself is self-perfection.

    Men   Thinking   Self  
  • Conservatism defends those coercive arrangements which a still-lingering savageness makes requisite. Radicalism endeavours to realize a state more in harmony with the character of the ideal man.

    Herbert Spencer (1851). “Social Statics: Or, the Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, and the First of Them Developed”, p.469
  • As a girl, she had come to believe in the ideal man -- the prince or knight of her childhood stories. In the real world, however, men like that simply didn't exist.

    Life   Girl   Real  
    Nicholas Sparks (2011). “Message In A Bottle”, p.52, Hachette UK
  • I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities.

    Statement at trial, Johannesburg, South Africa, 20 Apr. 1964
  • My ideal man is dead white old and on a green sheet of paper.

    Men   White   Paper  
  • I sometimes used to ask myself, what on earth did I love her for? Maybe fore the warm hazel iris of her fluffy eyes, or for the natural side-wave of her brown hair, done anyhow, or again for that movement of her plump shoulders. But, probably the truth was that I loved her because she loved me. To her I was the ideal man: brains, pluck. And there was none dressed better. I remember once, when I first put on that new dinner jacket, with the vast trousers, she clapsed her hands, sank down on a chair and murmured: 'Oh, Hermann...." It was ravishment bordering upon something like heavenly woe.

    Eye   Men   Hair  
  • Our age is pre-eminently the age of sympathy, as the eighteenth century was the age of reason. Our ideal men and women are they, whose sympathies have had the widest culture, whose aims do not end with self, whose philanthropy, though centrifugal, reaches around the globe.

    Sympathy   Men   Self  
  • During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.

    FaceBook post by Nelson Mandela from Apr 20, 2014
  • I think my ideal man would speak many languages. He would speak Ibo and Yoruba and English and French and all of the others. He could speak with any person, even the soldiers, and if there was violence in their heart he could change it. He would not have to fight, do you see? Maybe he would not be very handsome, but he would be beautiful when he spoke. He would be very kind, even if you burned his food because you were laughing and talking with your girlfriends instead of watching the cooking. He would just say, 'Ah, never mind'.

    Chris Cleave (2012). “Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold”, p.72, Simon and Schuster
  • I am attracted to a thug. I like that quality, but I like the other side of it, too. Because all guys who go around behaving in macho ways are really scared little girls. So you have to look beneath the surface. There's a difference between my ideal man and a man that I'm sexually attracted to, believe me. Therein lies the rub.

    Girl   Lying   Believe  
    Interview with Vince Aletti for Aperture Magazine, Summer 1999.
  • You Europeans know nothing about America. Because we amass large fortunes you think we care for nothing but money. We are nothing for it; the moment we have it we spend it, sometimes well, sometimes ill, but we spend it. Money is nothing to us; it's merely the symbol of success. We are the greatest idealists in the world; I happen to think that we've set our ideal on the wrong objects; I happen to think that the greatest ideal man can set before himself is self-perfection.

    Men   Thinking   America  
  • My ideal man is Benjamin Franklin-the figure in American history most worthy of emulation ... Franklin is my ideal of a whole man. ... Where are the life-size-or even pint-size-Benjamin Franklins of today?

    Hero   Men   History  
  • Repentance is the biggest punishment of ideal man.

    Men   Repentance   Ideals  
  • The ideal man takes joy in doing favors for others.

    Men   Joy   Favors  
  • Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain.

    Soul   Failing   Know How  
    Margaret Fuller, Joel Myerson (1978). “Margaret Fuller: Essays on American Life and Letters”, p.87, Rowman & Littlefield
  • The ideal man doesn't exist. A husband is easier to find.

    Husband   Men   Easier  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Most people carry an ideal man and woman in their head, and when the practical relations of the men and women of every day are discussed with reference only to these impossible ideals, we need not marvel at any ridiculous conclusions.

    Men   People   Needs  
  • Sting's my ideal man, because he's a real man.

    Real   Men   Ideals  
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