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Ideas

An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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All opening moves were the same, like in chess. You don't have to come up with anything new, there's no point, because you're both after the same thing anyway. The game soon finds its own way and it's only at that point that you need a strategy.

Paolo Giordano

Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.

Schuller, Robert H.

There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.

Emile Chartier

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

Proust, Marcel

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

Simpson, E. L.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Brande, Dorothea

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Think for thyself one good idea, but known to be thine own, is better than a thousand gleaned from fields by others sown.

Wilson, Alexander

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We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.

Block, Henry

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Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!

Brown, Les

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Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

Hyman Rickover

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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Nelson, George

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

Twain, Mark

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

Judith Brocklehurst

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A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank.

Berry, John

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

Lynch, David

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The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.

William O. Douglas

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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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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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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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The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial.

Rorty, Richard

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It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

Gide, Andre

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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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Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.

Horton, Doug

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It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.

Keynes, John Maynard

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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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

James, William

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There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man may aspire, and yet be quite content until it is time to raise; and both flying and resting are but parts of one contentment. The very fruit of the gospel is aspiration. It is to the heart what spring is to the earth, making every root, and bud, and bough desire to be more. -

Beecher, Henry Ward

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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

Hugo, Victor

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

Pauling, Linus

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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

Anatole France

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Go out and buy yourself a five-cent pencil and a ten-cent notebook and begin to write down some million-dollar ideas for yourself.

Grinde, Bob

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Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wander whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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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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If you have the same ideas as everybody else but have them one week earlier than everyone else then you will be hailed as a visionary. But if you have them five years earlier you will be named a lunatic.

Jones, Barry

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When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.

Williamson, Marianne

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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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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