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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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• You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Positive, Art

  "Conversations with Maya Angelou". Book by Jeffrey M. Elliot, 1989.

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• Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow.

  Bill Moyers

  Motivational, Arrows, Bows

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• Ideas are the root of creation.

  Ernest Dimnet

  Roots, Creation

  "The Power of Thought". Published by Prima, p. 119, 1998.

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• You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Change, Pain, Fear

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• Neither man nor nation can exist without a sublime idea.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Sublime, Nations

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• Ideas are useless unless used.

  Theodore Levitt

  Creativity, Innovation, Useless

  Theodore Levitt (1974). “Marketing for business growth”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• Imagination is the highest form of research.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Business

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• A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Thinking, Yesterday, Mind

  "Kenelm Chillingly : His Adventures and Opinions". Book by Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Book I, Ch. 8, 1873.

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• Every idea must have a visible enfolding.

  Victor Hugo

  Visible

  Victor Hugo, Frank Lee Benedict (1874). “Ninety-three”, p.131, Dawson Bros.

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• Don't worry about people stealing your ideas.

  Howard Aiken

  Business, Science, Office Work

  "A Computer Science Reader : Selections from Abacus" by Eric A. Weiss, (p. 404), 1988.

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• The best revenge is the massive success.

  Frank Sinatra

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.

  Antoine Rivarol

  Hands, Bears, Talent

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• Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Motivation, Life And Love, Creativity

  Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price (2001). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”, p.98, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk — and to act.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Success, Christian, Differences

  "Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life".

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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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• Labor gives birth to ideas.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Work, Creativity

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• First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

  Napoleon Hill

  Wise, Inspirational Life, New Beginnings

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Become Your Best”, p.145, Jaico Publishing House

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• There is no such thing as a new idea. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope.

  Mark Twain

  Kaleidoscope, New Ideas, Old Ideas

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.9071, Delphi Classics

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• Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Simple, Simplicity, Soul

  "The Poetics of Reverie". Book by Gaston Bachelard, 1960.

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• The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.

  Edward de Bono

  Needs, Bars, Lateral Thinking

  Edward De Bono (1982). “Lateral thinking for management: a handbook”

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• My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

  Anais Nin

  Life, Writing, Office

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• All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Life, New Beginnings

  Napoleon Hill (2012). “Think & Grow Rich”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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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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• It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.

  Edwin Land

  Business, Entrepreneur, Needs

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