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The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away.

Linus Pauling

Ideas, Creative, Innovation

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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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As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

Harold MacMillan

Ideas, Sound, Usual

Speech to London Conservatives, 7 Mar. 1961, in The Times 8 Mar. 1961

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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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You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.

Lee Iacocca

Inspirational, Motivational, Business

Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.16, Bantam

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I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas.

Anne Stevenson

Memorable, Ideas, Giving

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Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.

Frank Darabont

Ideas, Adaptation, Originals

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You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere. Lee Iacocca

Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Mark Twain

Communication, Love Is, Skills

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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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The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.

Franz Grillparzer

Ideas, Age, Crowded

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I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

John Cage

Inspirational, Motivational, Change

"Conversing with Cage". Book by Richard Kostelanetz, 1988.

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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Ideas, People, Originals

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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Motivational, Courage, Clever

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Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Jim Rohn

Life, Change, Greatness

FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 18, 2015

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Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

John Steinbeck

Inspirational, Wisdom, Couple

John Steinbeck, Thomas Fensch (1988). “Conversations with John Steinbeck”, p.124, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

Alfred North Whitehead

Science, Ideas, Innovation

Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

Robin Williams

Inspirational, Change, Philosophy

"Robin Williams: Genie in the Lamp" by Alex Kip, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 14, 2014.

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If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.

Rollo May

Depression, Ideas, Creating

Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.12, W. W. Norton & Company

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It can certainly happen that characters in more sophisticated stories can "take over" as they develop and change the author's original ideas. Well, it certainly happens to me at times.

Margaret Mahy

Character, Ideas, Stories

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An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

Stephen Fry

Funny, Witty, Book

Stephen Fry (2010). “The Liar”, p.54, Random House

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A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.

Freeman Dyson

Science, Ideas, Engineering

"Disturbing the Universe". Book by Freeman Dyson, 1979.

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The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.

John Maynard Keynes

Inspirational, Change, Lying

"The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money". Book by John Maynard Keynes (Preface), 1936.

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After a short period of time in Pakistan, it's clear that drones are not a security solution. If you believe in drones, the original idea was to go after so-called high-value targets, which according to the NYU-Stanford study 2% of the people killed by drones are high-value targets - now, who are all the rest of the people? Well, it's a secret program, so therefore the CIA doesn't have to tell us anything, yet they claim that with each attack they're getting militants. Now we have people coming forward, saying, actually, no we're not terrorists.

Robert Greenwald

Believe, Ideas, Nyu

Source: www.salon.com

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But having had your bright, fresh, original idea, the really hard part is turning it into a successful product. That's what takes all the sweat.

Trevor Baylis

Successful, Sweat, Ideas

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