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• No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Someday, Modern, No Idea

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• I am in no sense of the word a great artist, not even a great animator; I have always had men working for me whose skills were greater than my own. I am an idea man.

  Walt Disney

  Being Yourself, Men, Artist

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• The best ideas come unexpectedly from a conversation or a common activity like watering the garden. These can get lost or slip away if not acted on when they occur.

  Ruth Asawa

  Garden, Common, Lost

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• Our ideas are transformed sensations.

  Etienne Bonnot de Condillac

  Transformed, Sensations

  "Treasury of Wisdom, Wit and Humor, Odd Comparisons and Proverbs", (p. 204), 1878.

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• There is no better opportunity to receive more than to be thankful for what you already have. Thanksgiving opens the windows of opportunity for ideas to flow your way.

  Jim Rohn

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Grateful

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 30, 2015

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• No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Foolish, Born, Conferences

  The Crack-Up "Note-Books" (1945)

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• To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

  H. L. Mencken

  Wisdom, Men, Deception

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• He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Freedom, Light, Political

  Letter to Isaac McPherson, 13 Aug. 1813

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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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• All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money.

  Robert Collier

  Money, Creativity, Mind

  Robert Collier (2012). “The Secret of the Ages”, p.78, Courier Corporation

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• Don't settle, as with all matters of the heart you'll know when you find it

  Steve Jobs

  Change, Work, Life Changing

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

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• All the opportunities you let slip by! The idea, the inspiration just doesn´t come fast enough. Instead of being open, you´re closed up tight. That´s the worst sin of all - the sin of omission.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Inspiration, Opportunity, Omission

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• The bathroom door burst open, and Molly came trotting out. The left half of her body had been shaved almost down to the skin. The right half was as shaggy as before. John emerged after her, brushing a layer of dog hair off his clothes. John said, "Well, that's done... It was Molly's idea. She wants to look like two different dogs when she's coming and going. She thinks it will make it easier for her to steal food... That's one complicated dog, Dave. Have you started on the bomb?

  David Wong

  Dog, Thinking, Hair

  David Wong (2011). “John Dies at the End”, p.444, Titan Books

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• Not to engage in this pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.

  Mortimer Adler

  Motivational, Moving On, Live Life

  "Reforming Education: The Opening of the American Mind".

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• Right now it's only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.

  Woody Allen

  Thinking, Notion, Turns

  Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman (2000). “Annie Hall: scénario bilingue”

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• The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?

  Dale Carnegie

  Jesus, Book, Use

  Newsweek, August 08, 1955.

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• An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.

  Don Marquis

  Believe, Responsibility, Science

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• No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Half, Literature, Matter

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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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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• Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Race, Cynical

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• The only sure way to avoid making mistakes is to have no new ideas.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Mistake

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• We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Relationship, Voice, Tone

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• God will not pour fresh, creative ideas and blessing into old attitudes.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Change, God

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• To get a great idea, come up with lots of them.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Creativity, Play, Come Up

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• An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.

  Edward de Bono

  Buddhist, Creativity, Buddhism

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

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