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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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• Great ideas originate in the muscles.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Life, Motivation, Work

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• The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is seldom explicit.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Clothes, Arbitrary, Explicit

  Wyndham Lewis (1969). “Wyndham Lewis: an anthology of his prose”

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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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• Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas

  Paula Poundstone

  Children, Growing Up, Kids

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• There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs.

  John H. Vincent

  Bombs, Dynamite

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• Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men or they are no better than dreams.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Courage, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3017, Delphi Classics

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• I'm not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I look at is a great opportunity for ideas.

  Martha Stewart

  Opportunity, Looks, Sponges

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• Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers.

  Brooks Atkinson

  Men, Two, Three

  Brooks Atkinson (1951). “Once Around the Sun”

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• A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

  Marcel Proust

  Inspirational, Strength, Powerful

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.518, Wordsworth Editions

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• The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

  Alan Kay

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• It's not about ideas. It's about making ideas happen.

  Scott Belsky

  Motivational, Business, Young Entrepreneurs

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• If you can dream it, you can make it so.

  Belva Davis

  Inspirational, Positive, Dream

  Belva Davis, Vicki Haddock (2011). “Never in My Wildest Dreams: A Black Woman's Life in Journalism”, p.215, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Health, Compassion, Breakfast Of Champions

  FaceBook post by Kurt Vonnegut from Jan 05, 2015

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• Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Romance, Mind, Unusual

  Ernest Hemingway (2002). “Men Without Women”, p.143, Simon and Schuster

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• An idea is a feat of association.

  Robert Frost

  Humor, Carpe Diem, Deep Thought

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• There's no good idea that cannot be improved on.

  Michael Eisner

  Innovation, Growth, Kaizen

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• Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Hope, Past, May

  "Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (A Retrospective Glance at the Lifework of a Master of Books)". Book by Gaston Bachelard edited by Suzanne Bachelard, 1988.

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• No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.

  Victor Hugo

  Inspirational, Strength, Wisdom

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• Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow

  T. S. Eliot

  Fall, Reality, Shadow

  "The Hollow Men" l. 72 (1925)

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• The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book.

  Dale Carnegie

  Mines, Borrowed

  Newsweek, August 08, 1955.

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• There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof.

  Alan Moore

  Blood, Flesh, Cloaks

  "V for Vendetta". Comic book series by Alan Moore, 1982 - 1986.

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• If you can dream it, you can achieve it.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Positive, Dream

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• The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Education, Fear, Lying

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.7, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

  Ezra Pound

  People, Judgement, Literature

  1938 Guide to Kulcher, pt.1, section1, ch.5.

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