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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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Art

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

  Emile Chartier

  Way, Deny, Testing

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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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• In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress.

  Heinrich Heine

  Time, Fighting, Literature

  Heinrich Heine (1873). “Scintillations from the Prose Works of Heinrich Heine: I. Florentine Nights. II. Excerpts”, p.90

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• There are fast ideas and slow ideas, just as there are fast trains and slow trains. When it comes to money, most people are on the slow train looking out the window watching the fast train pass them by. If you want to become rich quickly, your plan must include fast ideas.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  People, Want, Window

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• The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Moving, Change Is Good, Progress

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• All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "How to Be Like Walt : Capturing the Magic Every Day of Your Life". Book by Pat Williams, 2004.

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• If you can dream it, you can do it.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

  Irving Berlin

  Funny, Truth, Long

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• Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

  Hector Berlioz

  Writing, Despair, Forget

  Hector Berlioz (1935). “Memoirs of Hector Berlioz from 1803 to 1865: comprising his travels in Germany, Italy, Russia, and England”

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• Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.

  Josh Billings

  Art, Hunting

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• The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Education, Time, Positive Thinking

  "The Crack-Up" (1936)

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• You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.

  Neil Gaiman

  Writing, Differences, Bores You

  "Where do you get your ideas?" by Neil Gaiman, www.neilgaiman.com. 1997.

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• The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.

  Eric Hoffer

  Real, Wine, Water

  "Thoughts of Eric Hoffer, Including: 'Absolute Faith Corrupts Absolutely'" by Eric Hoffer, The New York Times Magazine (p. 60), April 25, 1971.

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• The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.

  Ray Bradbury

  Inspirational, Life, Science

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

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• Believe in something larger than yourself ... to get involved in some of the big ideas of our time.

  Barbara Bush

  Time, Believe, Belief

  Barbara Bush's Commencement Address at the Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, www.wellesley.edu. June 1, 1990.

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• Nearly every man 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

  Motivational, Positive, Perseverance

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• Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

  George Eliot

  Literature, Trouble, Impression

  George Eliot (1871). “Felix Holt, the Radical”, p.502

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• At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.

  Bill Gates

  Inspiring, Money, Business

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