Ideas Quotes - Page 6

• An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Truth, Lying, Checks

  Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). “the Revolt of the Masses”

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• An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

  Charles Dickens

  Halloween, Creativity, Littles

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• I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Art, Painter

  Attributed in "Artists and Aesthetics in Spain" by Ann Livermore, (p. 154), 1988.

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• The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.

  Bernard Baruch

  Communication, Important, Ability

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• My ideas are all the same but look different.

  Maurizio Cattelan

  Different, Looks

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• The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter — for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way. He lives and labors and hopes.

  Nikola Tesla

  Taken, Hard Work, Science

  Nikola Tesla, David Hatcher Childress (2000). “The Tesla Papers”, p.74, Adventures Unlimited Press

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• If you don't execute your ideas, they die.

  Roger von Oech

  Dies, Ifs

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• It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Evil, Dangerous, Interest

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

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• To die for an idea is to set a rather high price upon conjecture.

  Anatole France

  Funny, Atheism, Conjecture

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

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• This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

  Hortense Calisher

  Success, Writing, Acting

  Hortense Calisher (2013). “Herself: An Autobiographical Work”, p.62, Open Road Media

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• Ideas are intelligent active things which present themselves to your consciousness for expression. You can only be receptive and express them as they will be expressed.

  Harvey Dunn

  Intelligent, Expression, Consciousness

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• I feel I'm able to serve my customer by knowing what she or he wants. One of the ways I'm able to do this is through my website, and email: people give me great ideas, tell me what they want, what they don't want. It's really instrumental, and helps me stay in touch with people.

  Kathy Ireland

  Knowledge, Knowing, People

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• If NATURE has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea... No one possesses the less, because every other possess the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Creativity, Thinking, Light

  Letter to Isaac McPherson, 13 Aug. 1813

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• A person with imprecise ideas can understand little and be of less help to others.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Littles, Helping, Persons

  Ignatius of Loyola, Joseph Munitiz (1996). “Personal Writings”, p.249, Penguin UK

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• When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Forgiveness, Peace

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• Currents of energy shimmer through our bodies. Like shooting stars, we rocket through spacious stillness. But this silent, unmoving background is nothing like the granite ideas we use trying to take root in groundless soil.

  Anthony Lawlor

  Stars, Roots, Trying

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• Produce as many ideas as possible. Try to produce unlikely ideas.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Trying, Unlikely, Produce

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• I love being inside my brain and pushing myself to think in ever more complex ways because I know the ideas are there for the taking. It's all about being focused and disciplined and making use of one's abilities.

  Nancy Crow

  Love Is, Thinking, Brain

  Nancy Crow (2006). “Nancy Crow”

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• I use the gallery as if it were a doctor. I come for ideas and help - to look at situations within painting, rather than paintings.

  Lucian Freud

  Doctors, Use, Looks

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• If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can do with your business and your life. Ideas are any man's greatest asset.

  Harvey S. Firestone

  Strength, Leadership, Men

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• One should conquer the world, not to enthrone a man, but an idea; for ideas exist forever.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Men, Conquer The World, Forever

  Benjamin Disraeli (1847). “Tancred: Or, The New Crusade”, p.293

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• A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

  William James

  Inspirational, Change, Dream

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• Microfinance is an idea whose time has come.

  Kofi Annan

  Microfinance, Microcredit

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• I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Funny, Morning, Acceptance

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• There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.

  Victor Hugo

  Strength, Time, Peace

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