Ideas Quotes

• A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Inspirational, Success, Enthusiasm For Life

  Mary Kay Ash (2009). “The Mary Kay Way: Timeless Principles from America's Greatest Woman Entrepreneur”, p.67, John Wiley & Sons

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  Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

  Marie Curie

  Thoughtful, Gossip, People

  "Living Adventures in Science‎". Book by Henry Thomas and Dana Lee Thomas, 1954.

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• Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.

  Albert Einstein

  Creativity, Contagious

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• The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Positive, Being Happy, Uplifting

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  The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Inspirational, Change, Lying

  "The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money". Book by John Maynard Keynes (Preface), 1936.

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• Research your idea. See if there's a demand. A lot of people have great ideas, but they don't know if there's a need for it. You also have to research your competition.

  Magic Johnson

  Motivational, Basketball, Greatness

  "Making Magic". Interview with Janean Chun, www.entrepreneur.com. July 1, 1998.

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• To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.

  W. Clement Stone

  Inspirational, Motivational, Clear Goals

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

  Jim Rohn

  Life, Change, Greatness

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 18, 2015

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• First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

  Napoleon Hill

  Wise, Inspirational Life, New Beginnings

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Become Your Best”, p.145, Jaico Publishing House

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

  Richard Branson

  People

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• An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.

  Edward de Bono

  Buddhist, Creativity, Buddhism

  Edward De Bono (1992). “Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas”, Harpercollins

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• Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow.

  Bill Moyers

  Motivational, Arrows, Bows

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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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• 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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• 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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• The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.

  Charles Kettering

  Business, World, Want

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  Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

  William James

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Imagination

  Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) lectures 4 and 5, p. 113

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• When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Flames, Funny Sarcastic, Alcohol

  "Charmed Circle: Gertrude Stein and Company". Book by James R. Mellow, 1974.

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• Imagination is the highest form of research.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Business

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• Labor gives birth to ideas.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Work, Creativity

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• The only sure way to avoid making mistakes is to have no new ideas.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Mistake

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• The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Numbers, Democracy, Genius

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1990). “Democracy in America”

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• If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Hope, Spiritual

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.480, Princeton University Press

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