Great Idea Quotes - Page 2

• A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Teacher, Teaching, Ignorance

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• To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Positive, Smart, Failure

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

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Positive, Dream

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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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  Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• The best revenge is the massive success.

  Frank Sinatra

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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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 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, Ideas, Knowing

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• You still stand watch, O human star, burning without a flicker, perfect flame, bright and resourceful spirit. Each of your rays a great idea - O torch which passes from hand to hand, from age to age, world without end.

  Karel Capek

  Stars, Flames, Hands

  "R.U.R". Book by Karel Capek, January 25, 1921.

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• The weak can never forgive.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Strength, Being Strong, Forgiveness

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.155, A&C Black

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• Great ideas originate in the muscles.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Life, Motivation, Work

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

  Michael Eisner

  Ideas, Innovation, Growth

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• Research your idea. See if there's a demand. A lot of people have great ideas, but they don't know if there's a need for it. You also have to research your competition.

  Magic Johnson

  Motivational, Basketball, Greatness

  "Making Magic". Interview with Janean Chun, www.entrepreneur.com. July 1, 1998.

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• If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Graduation

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• You cannot imagine what sorrow and anger seize one's whole soul when a great idea, which one has long and piously revered, is picked up by some bunglers and dragged into the street, to more fools like themselves, and one suddenly meets it in the flea market, unrecognizable, dirty, askew, absurdly presented, without proportion, without harmony, a toy for stupid children.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Children, Stupid, Dirty

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• I know you have 1000 great ideas for things that iTunes could do. And we have 1000 more. But innovation is not about saying "yes" to everything. It's about saying "no" to all but the most crucial features.

  Steve Jobs

  Ideas, Simplicity, Innovation

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• I see people as the nucleus of a great idea that hasn't come to be yet.

  Richard Pryor

  Ideas, People, Nucleus

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• Things should all be moving toward the expression of a great idea.

  Robert Henri

  Moving, Expression, Ideas

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• The Internet has really democratized ideas. There are no real gatekeepers any more, because if you have a great idea, and you put it online, people will find it and it will get in front of who it needs to get in front of.

  Justin Halpern

  Real, Ideas, People

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• Every great idea starts out as a blasphemy.

  Bertrand Russell

  Ideas, Blasphemy

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• We need innovation. We need great ideas that can be simply and effectively produced all over the place.

  Helen Clark

  Ideas, Innovation, Needs

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Creepy people do the things that decent people want to do, but have decided are not a great idea.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Ideas, People, Creepy

  "Q&A: Mike Birbiglia on the Subway, Fans & Comedy About Love". Interview with Anna Peele, www.esquire.com. November 26, 2013.

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• Free speech is a great idea, but were in a war.

  Lindsey Graham

  War, Ideas, Speech

  "'Free speech is a great idea, but we're in a war': Check out the 10 most absurd things Lindsey Graham has said". www.glennbeck.com. March 26, 2014.

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• [Mannerism is when] you think you have all these great ideas, and none of them are good at the end of the day. But while you are pursuing those other things subconsciously happen.

  Ryan Gosling

  Thinking, Ideas, The End Of The Day

  "Lars & The Real Girl - Ryan Gosling interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• The only difference between the failure of a great idea and the success of a medocre idea was the way in which the idea was communicated.

  Nancy Duarte

  Ideas, Differences, Way

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