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• When you once get an idea in which you believe with all your heart, work it out.

  Henry Ford

  Believe, Heart, Working It

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

  John H. Vincent

  Bombs, Dynamite

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• A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Intelligent, Men, Soldier

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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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• We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man may aspire, and yet be quite content until it is time to raise; and both flying and resting are but parts of one contentment. The very fruit of the gospel is aspiration. It is to the heart what spring is to the earth, making every root, and bud, and bough desire to be more.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Spring, Heart, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life thoughts gathered from the extemporaneous discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, by E.D. Procter”, p.72

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• You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea: you can not put an idea up against a barracks-square wall and riddle it with bullets: you cannot confine it in the strongest prison cell that your slaves could ever build.

  Sean O'Casey

  Wall, Cells, Squares

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• Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• One of the secrets to success is ideas mixed with inspiration

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 29, 2017

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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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• 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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• Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds. Remy de Gourmont An idea is salvation by imagination

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Lying, Simple, Imagination

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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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• The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Twitter post from Jan 30, 2017

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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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• Ideas are like matter, infinitely divisible. It is not given to us to get down so to speak to their final atoms, but to their molecular groupings-the way is never ending and the progress infinitely delightful and profitable.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Progress, Matter, Way

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• It is only liquid currents of thought that move men and the world

  Wendell Phillips

  Moving, Men, World

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• Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

  Andre Malraux

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Don't use your mind for a filing cabinet. Use your mind to work out problems and find answers; file away good ideas in your journal.

  Jim Rohn

  Filing Cabinet, Work Out, Mind

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jul 17, 2015

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• The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Wise, History, Mankind

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1849). “Notes and Lectures Upon Shakespeare and Some of the Old Poets and Dramatists: With Other Literary Remains of S. T. Coleridge”, p.131

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• Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have.

  Emile Chartier

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Wisdom

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• Banning guns is an idea whose time has come.

  Joe Biden

  Gun, Gun Control, Gun Rights

  Interview to Associated Press, www.nwitimes.com. November 18, 1993.

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• I have always lived my life by thriving on opportunity and adventure. Some of the best ideas come out of the blue, and you have to keep an open mind to see their virtue.

  Richard Branson

  Adventure, Opportunity, Blue

  Richard Branson (1999). “Losing my virginity: how I've survived, had fun, and made a fortune doing business my way”, Crown Business

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• A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions. There is something about a well-worded question that often penetrates to the heart of the matter and triggers new ideas and insights.

  Brian Tracy

  Motivational, Success, Wise

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Jul 21, 2013

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