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Ideas

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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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.

Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

Jim Hightower

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

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Brown, Les

Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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

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

Block, Henry

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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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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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

Canetti, Elias

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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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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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A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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

Einstein, Albert

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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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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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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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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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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Maritain, Jacques

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

Brande, Dorothea

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A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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

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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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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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An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.

Marquis, Don

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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

Alfred North Whitehead

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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Lynch, David

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al