Bright Ideas Quotes

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

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Wisdom, Real, Years

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• Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done right.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dog

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• Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

  W. H. Murray

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The first rule of discovery is to have brains and good luck. The second rule of discovery is to sit tight and wait till you get a bright idea.

  George Polya

  Good Luck, Math, Science

  George Pólya (1948). “How to solve it: a new aspect of mathematical method”

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• Knowledge and ideas tend to be a bit like experience - nice, but not necessarily useful. Clear thinking, logical priorities and the ability to reason will beat bright ideas and unassisted experience everytime.

  Carroll Smith

  Nice, Thinking, Ideas

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• Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.

  Mark Twain

  Courage, Fear, Cancer

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• Everyone is a genius at least once a year.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Years, Genius, Original Ideas

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg C. Lichtenberg, 1779 - 1788.

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• Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness... bright ideas are preceded by a gestation period that is interior, murky, and completely necessary.

  Julia Cameron

  Creativity, Gestation Period, Ideas

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.248, Souvenir Press

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  Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Instead of focusing on the amount of money lacking in your budget, focus on what you DO have: a willing spirit, an imagination filled with bright ideas, people who care about you and can perhaps help you in some way. These are the things that will enable you to do almost anything.

  Phil Keoghan

  Ideas, People, Imagination

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• If he ever had a bright idea it would be beginner's luck.

  William Lashner

  Sarcastic, Ideas, Luck

  William Lashner (2009). “Bitter Truth”, p.65, Harper Collins

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• People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Sep 22, 2016

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• Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.

  James Dyson

  Technology, Ideas, Design

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• It is unearned love--the love that goes before, that greets us on the way. It's the help you receive when you have no bright ideas left, when you are empty and desperate and have discovered that your best thinking and most charming charm have failed you. Grace is the light or electricity or juice or breeze that takes you from that isolated place and puts you with others who are as startled and embarrassed and eventually grateful as you are to be there.

  Anne Lamott

  Grateful, Thinking, Light

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• Whoever had the bright idea of putting Indiana Jones in a leather jacket and a fedora in the jungle ought to be dragged into the street and shot.

  Harrison Ford

  Ideas, Leather Jackets, Indiana

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The best revenge is the massive success.

  Frank Sinatra

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• We normally learn at least as much from our mistakes as we do from our successes. The best development driver/engineer I ever knew once told me that he reckoned that about 20% of his bright ideas worked.

  Carroll Smith

  Mistake, Ideas, Development

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• Courage is not the absence of fear...

  Richard Stengel

  Courage, Fear, Cancer

  "Mandela: His 8 Lessons of Leadership" by Richard Stengel, content.time.com. July 9, 2008.

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• When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.

  Cesare Pavese

  Writing, Fire, Ideas

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.90, Transaction Publishers

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• It's not just that Miers has zero judicial experience. It's that she's so transparently a crony/"diversity" pick while so many other vastly more qualified and impressive candidates went to waste. If this is President Bush's bright idea to buck up his sagging popularity--among conservatives as well as the nation at large--one wonders whom he would have picked in rosier times. Shudder.

  Michelle Malkin

  Zero, Ideas, Diversity

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• Trying to do good to people without God's help is no easier than making the sun shine at midnight. You discover that you've got to abandon all your own preferences, your own bright ideas, and guide souls along the road our Lord has marked out for them. You mustn't coerce them into some path of your own choosing.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Ideas, People, Shining

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• You have to listen to your own voice. Not your heart, not your instincts, not any of that self-permissive psycho-babble stuff. No, none of that. If it was just about instincts and bright ideas it wouldn't need to be a voice. It's about words. You hear them, read them, then you write. But mostly read. Read the bloody poems.

  Fleur Adcock

  Writing, Heart, Self

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• Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that

  James Neil Hollingworth

  Courage, Fear, Cancer

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• Ours is the age of substitutes: Instead of language we have jargon; instead of principles, slogans; and instead of genuine ideas, bright suggestions.

  Eric Bentley

  Communication, Ideas, Age

  New Republic 29 Dec. 1952

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