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• A business is simply an idea to make other people's lives better.

  Richard Branson

  People

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• The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• The best way to predict the future is to create it.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Ideas are fatal to caste.

  E. M. Forster

  Technology, Literature, Castes

  E. M. Forster (2010). “A Passage to India”, p.62, RosettaBooks

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

  Linus Pauling

  Motivational, Inspiring, Success

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• The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away.

  Linus Pauling

  Creative, Innovation, Way

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  No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

  Robin Williams

  Inspirational, Change, Philosophy

  "Robin Williams: Genie in the Lamp" by Alex Kip, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 14, 2014.

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• Every really new idea looks crazy at first.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Inspirational, Courage, Crazy

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• All great ideas are dangerous.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Philosophy, History

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.122, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors.

  Stella Adler

  Actors, Playwright

  Howard Kissel, Stella Adler (2000). “Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel”, p.65, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• It is the form the idea takes in the imagination rather than the form as it exists outside.

  Arthur Dove

  Imagination, Form

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• The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

  Peter Medawar

  Change, Nature, New Beginnings

  "The Art of the Soluble". Book by Peter Medawar, 1967.

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• Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Inspirational, Roots, Orange

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

  Dorothea Brande

  Long, Original Ideas, New Ideas

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01”, p.180, Lulu.com

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• Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.

  Alfred Whitney Griswold

  Education, Running, Fear

  "Quora: What Does Freedom of Speech Mean?". www.yahoo.com. May 13, 2017.

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• Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.

  Paul Valery

  People, Serious

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• One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Educational, Shadow, Literature

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• The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.

  Walter Lippmann

  Time, Men, Thinking

  Walter Lippmann (1960). “A Preface To Morals”, p.43, Transaction Publishers

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• I have learned to respect ideas, wherever they come from. Often they come from clients. Account executives often have big creative ideas, regardless of what some writers think.

  Leo Burnett

  Thinking, Creative, Clients

  Leo Burnett (1961). “Communications of an Advertising Man: Selections from the Speeches, Articles, Memoranda, and Miscellaneous Writings of Leo Burnett”

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• My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Giving, Brilliant

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• The generosity, to me it’s less about the money and more about the support and the idea that people still care and love what Chris stood for and love him.

  Taya Kyle

  People, Generosity, Support

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• Good ideas are common - what's uncommon are people who will work hard enough to bring them about.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Hard Work, People, Motivational Sales

  Ashleigh Brilliant (1985). “All I Want is a Warm Bed and a Kind Word and Unlimited Power: Even More Brilliant Thoughts”, Brilliant Enterprises

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• If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Nothing is more powerful for your future than being a gatherer of good ideas and information. That's called doing your homework.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Powerful, Future

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Sep 13, 2016

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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.

  Roger von Oech

  Inspirational, Letting Go, Creativity

  Roger Von Oech (1986). “A Kick in the Seat of the Pants: Using Your Explorer, Artist, Judge, & Warrior to Be More Creative”, Harper Perennial

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