55 ideas on ideas
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“No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit”
Sir Frederick G. Banting (1891 - 1941)
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“An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come”
Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
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“I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it”
Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
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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 (1902 - 1968)
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“I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones”
John Cage (1912 - 1992)
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“When ideas fail, words come in very handy”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
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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”Howard Aiken (1900 - 1973)
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“An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it”
Don Marquis
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“No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not
in a man”H. L. Mencken
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“The value of an idea lies in the using of it”Thomas A. Edison
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“To have a great idea, have a lot of them”Thomas A. Edison
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“It's the right idea, but not the right time”
John Dalton
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“I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else”
Pablo Picasso
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“You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it
should be a vague idea”Pablo Picasso
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“You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea”
Medgar Evers
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“A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on”
John F. Kennedy
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“There's no good idea that can't be improved on”
Michael Eisner
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“A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds”
Mark Twain
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“An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all”
Oscar Wilde
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“We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in
which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us”
Friedrich Nietzsche
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“A real idea keeps changing and appears in many places”
Mason Cooley
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“Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea”
Robert Half
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“Everything begins with an idea”Earl Nightingale
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“No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas”
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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“All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as
they are. But you can not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change”
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“Right now it's only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a
concept, and later turn it into an idea”Woody Allen
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“An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself”
Charles Dickens
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“The history of the changes produced by a universal idea is not a history of changes in the individual, but of changes brought about
by the successive efforts of millions of individuals in the course of many
generations”Lafcadio Hearn
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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”
Pablo Picasso
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“Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to
put it into practice”Sydney J. Harris
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“If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it”
Charles Kettering
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“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”
Alfred North Whitehead
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“The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea”
Thomas Mann
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“Nearly everyone who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks
impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged”
Thomas A. Edison
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“My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything”
Susan Sontag
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“The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas”
Linus Pauling
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“No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish
ideas have died there”F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who
challenges it”Marcel Proust
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“Ideas must be put to the test. That's why we make things, otherwise they would be no more than ideas. There is often a huge
difference between an idea and its realisation”
Andy Goldsworthy
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“There is often a huge difference between an idea and its realisation.
I've had what I thought were great ideas that just didn't work”
Andy Goldsworthy
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“The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself”
Bernard Baruch
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“Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the
shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference”
Nolan Bushnell
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“Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds”
Albert Einstein
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“Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow”
Bill Moyers
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“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of
us will have two ideas”George Bernard Shaw
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“For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards
be always old-fashioned”George Santayana
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“Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the
most difficult thing in the world”Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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“Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle and carry home with them,
and the cause is half won”Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who
has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own”
Sydney J Harris
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“You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created”
Albert Einstein
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“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We
have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift”
Albert Einstein
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“Only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts”
Albert Einstein
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“It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the
stunning and unexpected findings of science”Carl Sagan
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“Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way”
Williams James
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“New ideas fail because they are new and unknown, old ideas fail because they are
old and too well known”Ricardo Sosa
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