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Ideas

An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Ideas won't work unless you do.

The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.

Lynch, David

The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting.

Nelson, George

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Pauling, Linus

A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

James, William

A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

Proust, Marcel

Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courageous patience.

Rickover, Hyman G.

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If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he would make a fortune.

Niblack, Griff

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It's a pretty good idea to be of good cheer but not all the time. Just at the most unexpected times.

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If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it.

Kettering, Charles F.

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If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person.

Bunche, Ralph

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Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something.

Simpson, E. L.

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If you pray for only one thing, .let it be for an idea.

Sutton, Percy

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Great people talk about ideas. Small people talk about other people.

Gibson, Tobias S.

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To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.

Rostand, Jean

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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

Samuel Goldwyn

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There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

Bridgman, P. W.

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Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first.

Hodges, Job E.

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Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: (1) It's completely impossible. (2) It's possible, but it's not worth doing. (3) I said it was a good idea all along.

Clarke, Arthur C.

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Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.

Rivarol, Antoine

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A new idea is like a child. It's easier to conceive than to deliver.

Koysis, Ted

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Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man. --

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.

Einstein, Albert

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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

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So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.

Brande, Dorothea

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There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than politicians think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas... that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think.

Foucault, Michel

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A handsome parson is fit for nothing but ti put ideas into the young woman's heads.

Judith Brocklehurst

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An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

Picasso, Pablo

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Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.

Carl Schurz

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It first appeared like a crazy idea. It turned out he had a great idea.

Munro, J. Richard

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A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Their acquisition obligates each man in some way to change his life, even if it is only his inner life. They demand to be stood for. They dictate where a man must concentrate his vision. They determine his moral and intellectual priorities. They provide him with allies and make him enemies. In short, ideas impose an interest in their ultimate fate which goes far beyond the realm of the merely reasonable.

Decter, Midge

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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

Hill, Napoleon

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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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A crank is someone with a new idea -- until it catches on.

Twain, Mark

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Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

Hector Berlioz

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Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you only have one.

Chartier, Alain

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I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

Georgia O'Keeffe

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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You have to hatch ideas -- and then hitch them.

Everson, Ray D.