Great Idea Quotes

• No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.

  Emma Goldman

  Law, Ideas, Wheels

  Emma Goldman “Mother Earth, a Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Social Science and Literature”

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• The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

  Linus Pauling

  Motivational, Inspiring, Success

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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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• Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.

  Tim Blixseth

  Motivational, Greatness, Ideas

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• A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.

  Jean Ingelow

  Life, Beauty, Blessing

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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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• Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

  W. H. Murray

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.

  Steve Jobs

  Ideas, Best Job, Small Jobs

  "Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires". PBS Documentary, 1996.

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• All great ideas are dangerous.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Philosophy, Ideas

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.122, Oxford University Press on Demand

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  Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

  Marie Curie

  Thoughtful, Ideas, Gossip

  "Living Adventures in Science‎". Book by Henry Thomas and Dana Lee Thomas, 1954.

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• A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Inspirational, Success, Enthusiasm For Life

  Mary Kay Ash (2009). “The Mary Kay Way: Timeless Principles from America's Greatest Woman Entrepreneur”, p.67, John Wiley & Sons

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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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• Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings.

  Charles Douglas Jackson

  Inspirational, Happiness, Success

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• A great idea is not enough.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Ideas, Enough

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter (2001). “Evolve!: Succeeding in the Digital Culture of Tomorrow”, p.267, Harvard Business Press

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• You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, Notebook

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• Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done right.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dog

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• Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it.

  Rex Harrison

  Ideas, Feelings, Exhilaration

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Good Morning, Good Night, Good Day

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  The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.166, A&C Black

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• Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.

  Leon Trotsky

  Life, Fall, Sadness

  "Trotzky's Diary in Exile - 1935". Book by Leon Trotsky, 1958.

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• I ran into Isosceles. He had a great idea for a new triangle!

  Woody Allen

  Ideas, Triangles, Ran

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• A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

  John F. Kennedy

  Life, Fall, Creativity

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.156, Best Books on

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• The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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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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• If you can dream it, you can do it.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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