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• There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than "politicians" think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas (and because it constantly produces them) that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think.

  Michel Foucault

  Struggle, Book, Thinking

  "Michel Foucault". Book by Didier Eribon translated by Betsy Wind, 1989.

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• To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Positive, Smart, Failure

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• If you share a good idea long enough, it will eventually fall on good people.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Leadership, Perseverance

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Feb 14, 2017

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• Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

  Napoleon Hill

  Positive Thinking, Law Of Attraction, Mind

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.47, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.

  Victor Hugo

  Rivers, Flow

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• The air is full of ideas. They are knocking you in the head all the time. You only have to know what you want, then forget it, and go about your business. Suddenly, the idea will come through. It was there all the time.

  Henry Ford

  Air, Want, Forget

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• If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.

  Alfred Nobel

  Fear, Failure, Creativity

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• An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

  Robert Frost

  Association, Height, Metaphor

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• If you wish to find, you must search. Rarely does a good idea interrupt you

  Jim Rohn

  Motivation, Business, Wish

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 17, 2016

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• There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn and they make new and curious combinations. We keep on turning and making new combinations indefinitely; but they are the same old pieces of colored glass that have been in use through all the ages.

  Mark Twain

  Glasses, Giving, Innovation

  Mark Twain (2017). “The Complete Novels of Mark Twain (Illustrated): 12 American Classics & Author’s Biography: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, A Horse’s Tale, The Prince and the Pauper, The American Claimant, The Mysterious Stranger…”, p.4051, e-artnow

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• Far too many people have no idea of what they can do because all they have been told is what they can't do. They don't know what they want because they don't know what's available for them.

  Zig Ziglar

  People, Want, Ability

  Zig Ziglar “Over the Top”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

  Elias Canetti

  Creativity, Technology, What Matters

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• The idea is in my head to put it down is nothing.

  Milton Avery

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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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• A little matter will move a party, but it must be something great that moves a nation.

  Thomas Paine

  Party, Moving, Greatness

  Thomas Paine (1852). “The Rights of Man: With a Brief Historical Preface”, p.98

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• If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.

  Niels Bohr

  Work, Creativity, Innovation

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• It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.

  Edward de Bono

  Business, Creativity, Bad Ass

  Norah Maier, Edward De Bono (1982). “Teaching the gifted, challenging the average”, Univ of Toronto

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• You can have many great ideas in your head, but what makes the difference is the action. Without action upon an idea, there will be no manifestation, no results and no reward.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Differences, Rewards, Four Agreements

  "The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom". Book by Miguel Angel Ruiz, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1997.

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• If you want to have clean ideas, change them as often as your shirts.

  Francis Picabia

  Art, Want, Clean

  "Picabia 1879-1953".

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• Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

  Jim Hightower

  Inspirational, Crazy, Madness

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• These days, the problem isn't how to innovate; it's how to get society to adopt the good ideas that already exist.

  Douglas Engelbart

  Problem, These Days, Good Ideas

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• Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Mind, Use, Bigs

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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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• What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others.

  Niels Bohr

  Science, Tasks, Our Words

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• Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

  Howard Aiken

  Life And Love, Business, Congratulations

  "A Computer Science Reader : Selections from Abacus" by Eric A. Weiss, (p. 404), 1988.

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