Ideas Quotes - Page 10

• One does not set out with the idea that I've just had a great idea and now I'm going to go and carry it out. Almost all art that's made like that doesn't go anywhere.

  Anish Kapoor

  Art, Doe, Made

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• The best time to set up a new discipline is when the idea is strong.

  Jim Rohn

  Strong, Discipline, Best Times

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 12, 2017

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• When a new idea comes our way, we must put it on our mental scales and weigh it carefully before deciding its value.

  Jim Rohn

  Way, Scales, Values

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Sep 13, 2016

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• Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.

  Edward de Bono

  Believe, School, Data

  Edward De Bono (1992). “Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas”, Harpercollins

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• A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Mind, May

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• You don't need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.

  Larry Page

  Business, Young Entrepreneurs, Needs

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• To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

  Steve Jobs

  Success, Business, Technology

  "Speaking Out: Apple's and Pixar's Steve Jobs". Bloomberg interview, www.bloomberg.com. August 25, 2003.

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• Ideas control the world.

  James A. Garfield

  World

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• We must give up the vain idea of trying to please everybody. That is impossible, and the attempt is a mere waste of time. We must be content to walk in Christ's steps, and let the world say what it likes.

  J. C. Ryle

  Giving Up, Trying, World

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Luke”, p.132, Editora Dracaena

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• Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Men, Thinking, Arrogance

  Sydney J. Harris (1953). “Strictly personal”

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• If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

  Thomas Mann

  Smell, Possessed, Ifs

  Thomas Mann (2010). “Death in Venice: And Seven Other Stories”, p.95, Vintage

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• Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.

  Mary Ritter Beard

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.

  Warren Buffett

  War, Opportunity, Investing Money

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• He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Sarcastic, Work, Ignorance

  'Sybil' (1845) bk. 4, ch. 5.

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• Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein, Leopold Infeld (1966). “Evolution of Physics”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

  Anatole France

  Motivational, Crazy, Life Changing

  Anatole France (1923). “The Works of Anatole France in English: My friend's book”

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• Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.

  Sigmund Freud

  Being Strong, Military, Men

  Sigmund Freud (2014). “Freud Verbatim”, p.38, The Overlook Press

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• In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress.

  Heinrich Heine

  Time, Fighting, Literature

  Heinrich Heine (1873). “Scintillations from the Prose Works of Heinrich Heine: I. Florentine Nights. II. Excerpts”, p.90

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• I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.

  Barbara Kruger

  Artist, Trying, Identity

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• When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Inspirational, Sleep, Night

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1928). “Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart”

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• Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience.

  Hyman Rickover

  Life, Motivational, Patience

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• I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Motivational Sports, Welcome, Advertising

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Science, Innovation, Firsts

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

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• We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.

  Noam Chomsky

  Hero, Should, Good Ideas

  Interview with David Cogswell, www.davidcogswell.com. September 14, 1993.

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• He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Book, Communication, Humor

  Abraham Lincoln (1992). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln”, Plume

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