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Ideas

An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

John Cage

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.

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

Maritain, Jacques

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Penny, A. Owen

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

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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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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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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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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The world moves, and ideas that were good once are not always good.

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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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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Walter Bagehot

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The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

Bragg, Sir William

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Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Rohn, Jim

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

Brown, Les

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

Sutton, Percy

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But how shall I get ideas? Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind -- Act!

Marden, Orison Swett

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Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea.

Saunders, Richard

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.

Dogen

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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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

Horton, Doug

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Anatole France

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

Everson, Ray D.

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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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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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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Emile Chartier

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.