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Ideas

Ideas won't work unless you do.

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I'm not impressed with the power of a corporate president. I am impressed with the power of ideas.

Mason, Ken

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

Einstein, Albert

Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

Bachelard, Gaston

Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

Many ideas are good for a limited time -- not forever.

Townsend, Robert

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Chartier, Alain

Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Everson, Ray D.

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Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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Mere words are cheap and plenty enough, but ideas that rouse and set multitudes thinking come as gold for the mines.

Penny, A. Owen

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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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To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

H. L. Mencken

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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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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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So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.

J. B. S. Haldane

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Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to 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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In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations. Then someone got the idea that there were greater sources of supply deeper down. A well was drilled five thousand feet deep. The result? A gusher. Too many of us operate on the surface. We never go deep enough to find supernatural resources. The result is, we never operate at our best. More time and investment is involved to go deep but a gusher will pay off.

Montapert, Alfred A.

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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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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.

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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

John Steinbeck

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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The point, simply, is that we are doing more rediscovering these days than discovering coming anew upon truths that ignorant people refused to examine, over the centuries, because the wise people who held custody of the fundamental truths of nature were unpopular.

Williamson, John

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Such as take lodgings in a head that's to be let unfurnished.

Butler, Samuel

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

Rorty, Richard

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The idea is in my head to put it down is nothing.

Avery, Milton

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A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

Maritain, Jacques

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The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.

Keynes, John Maynard

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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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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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It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.

Oech, Roger Von

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Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

Eliot, George

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People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

Pound, Ezra

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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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In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.

Bacon, Francis

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

Mann, Thomas

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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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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.

Trotsky, Leon

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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca