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• So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Responsibility, Firsts, Strange

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• The best time to set up a new discipline is when the idea is strong.

  Jim Rohn

  Strong, Discipline, Best Times

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 12, 2017

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• When a new idea comes our way, we must put it on our mental scales and weigh it carefully before deciding its value.

  Jim Rohn

  Way, Scales, Values

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Sep 13, 2016

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• Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.

  Edward de Bono

  Believe, School, Data

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

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• A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Mind, May

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• You don't need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.

  Larry Page

  Business, Young Entrepreneurs, Needs

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• To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

  Steve Jobs

  Success, Business, Technology

  "Speaking Out: Apple's and Pixar's Steve Jobs". Bloomberg interview, www.bloomberg.com. August 25, 2003.

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• Ideas control the world.

  James A. Garfield

  World

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• We must give up the vain idea of trying to please everybody. That is impossible, and the attempt is a mere waste of time. We must be content to walk in Christ's steps, and let the world say what it likes.

  J. C. Ryle

  Giving Up, Trying, World

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Luke”, p.132, Editora Dracaena

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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

  Men, Thinking, Arrogance

  Sydney J. Harris (1953). “Strictly personal”

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• If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

  Thomas Mann

  Smell, Possessed, Ifs

  Thomas Mann (2010). “Death in Venice: And Seven Other Stories”, p.95, Vintage

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• What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.

  Jean Genet

  Hate, Hatred, Needs

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• Every idea I get I have to deny, that's my way of testing it.

  Emile Chartier

  Way, Deny, Testing

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• Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Science, Innovation, Firsts

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Motivational, Opportunity, Long

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2003). “Enthusiasm Makes the Difference”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

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• I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Motivational Sports, Welcome, Advertising

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.

  Noam Chomsky

  Hero, Should, Good Ideas

  Interview with David Cogswell, www.davidcogswell.com. September 14, 1993.

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• He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Book, Communication, Humor

  Abraham Lincoln (1992). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln”, Plume

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• You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.

  Warren Buffett

  War, Opportunity, Investing Money

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• The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is generally understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Powerful, Freedom, Home Economics

  General Theory of Employment (1936; 1947 ed.) ch. 24

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• You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea.
  You can kill a man, but not an idea.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Freedom

  Benazir Bhutto (1989). “Daughter of Destiny: An Autobiography”, Simon & Schuster

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• Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.

  Larry Flynt

  People, Religion, Use

  "Larry Flynt: What I've Learned" by john H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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

  Leon Trotsky

  Fire, Mind, Revolutionary

  Leon Trotsky (2012). “My Life: An Attempt at an Autobiography”, p.432, Courier Corporation

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• Few ideas are in themselves practical. It is for want of imagination in applying them that they fail. The creative process does not end with an idea-it only starts with an idea.

  John D. Arnold

  Imagination, Creative, Doe

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• A good idea turns every cog in your mind, making you scared of bed in case the whole machine grinds to a halt.

  Trevor Baylis

  Mind, Machines, Bed

  "The Riddle: Where Ideas Come From and How to Have Better Ones". Book by Andrew Razeghi, 2008.

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