Big Ideas tagged with "Ayn Rand"

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• Ayn Rand: Our Own Greatness
• Ayn Rand: Not a Second-Hander
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• Ayn Rand: On Purpose
• Ayn Rand: Pure White Bliss
• Ayn Rand: Independence
• Ayn Rand: Comparisons
• Ayn Rand: Know What You Want
• Ayn Rand: The Greatest Kind of Courage
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• I would step in the way of a bullet if it were aimed at my husband. It is not self-sacrifice to die protecting that which you value: If the value is great enough, you do not care to exist without it.

  ~ Ayn Rand quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Ayn Rand, Great, The Way

• Why do they always teach us that it is easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves. It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage.

  ~ Ayn Rand quotes

  Self-Development Quotes on: Courage, Teach, Ayn Rand, Kind, Great, Rest, Evil

• Peter Keating: "Do you always have to have a purpose? Do you always have to be so damn serious? Can't you ever do things without reason, just like everybody else? You're so serious, so old. Everything's important with you. Everything's great, significant in some way, every minute, even when you keep still. Can't you ever be comfortable--and unimportant?" | Howard Roark: "No."

  ~ Ayn Rand quotes from The Fountainhead

  Famous Quotes on: Purpose, War, Ayn Rand, Great, Body, Reason, The Fountainhead

• About Mike the construction worker, friend of Roark: "He worshipped expertness of any kind. He loved his work passionately and had no tolerance for anything save for other single-track devotions. He was a master in his own filed and felt no sympathy except for mastery. His view of the world was simple: there were the able and there were the incompetent; he was not concerned with the latter.

  ~ Ayn Rand quotes from The Fountainhead

  Motivational Quotes on: Love, Sin, Devo, Ayn Rand, Kind, Path, Work, Mastery, Passion, The Fountainhead, Master, Friend, Devotion, Simple

• Roark: "I don't make comparisons. I never think of myself in relation to anyone else. I just refuse to measure myself as part of anything. I'm an utter egotist.

  ~ Ayn Rand quotes from The Fountainhead

  Inspirational Quotes on: Think, Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

• She knew she could not have reached this white serenity except as the sum of all the colors, of all the violence she had known.

  ~ Ayn Rand quotes from The Fountainhead

  Inspirational Quotes on: Ayn Rand, New, The Fountainhead

• [Roark to Keating:] If you want my advice, Peter," he said at last, "you've made a mistake already. By asking me. By asking anyone. Never ask people. Not about your work. Don't you know what you want? How can you stand it, not to know?"

  ~ Ayn Rand quotes from The Fountainhead

  Motivational Quotes on: Ayn Rand, Vice, Mistake, Work, The Fountainhead, Skin, People

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