Ideas Quotes - Page 3

• A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Success, Good Life

  1897 Following the Equator, ch.32.

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• I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Education, Determination

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• One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

  Walter Bagehot

  Art, Pain, Philosophy

  'Physics and Politics' (1872) 'The Age of Discussion'

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• Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.

  Joseph Stalin

  Powerful, Knowledge, Gun

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• The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.

  Joseph Addison

  Wise, Men, Hours

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...”, p.309

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• Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you're working on.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Problem, Adaptation, Used

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• Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

  Napoleon Hill

  Money, Hippie, Think And Grow Rich

  Napoleon Hill (2007). “The Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time on the Secrets to Wealth and Prosperity”, p.87, Penguin

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• 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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• Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Trust, Wise, Men

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• A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

  Jacques Maritain

  Business, Science, Experience

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• Everything begins with an idea.

  Earl Nightingale

  Creativity, Power Of Ideas

  Robert C. Worstell, Earl Nightingale “How to Change Your Life in 30 Seconds - Compleat”, Lulu.com

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• The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness... Unfortunately, many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Hard Work, Adventure, People

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• A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

  Norman Cousins

  Reading, Book, History

  Norman Cousins (1967). “Present Tense; an American Editor's Odyssey”

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• Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Inspirational, Success, Business

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• Ideas are information taking shape.

  Jim Rohn

  Shapes, Information

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 23, 2017

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• New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Dangerous Ideas, Three, Done

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• Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

  Walter Lippmann

  Men, Immortal, Thinker

  Walter Lippmann (1960). “A Preface To Morals”, p.43, Transaction Publishers

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• A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Men, Latter, Former

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• I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention. It's their 'ideas' that appeal to me. I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor

  Thomas A. Edison

  Names, Trying, Might

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• Events are only the shells of ideas; and often it is the fluent thought of ages that is crystallized in a moment by the stroke of a pen or the point of a bayonet.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Life, Age, Events

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• I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Single

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• If you think you can't, you're right.

  Carol Bartz

  Inspirational, Positive, Smart

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• Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

  Georges Braque

  Art, Nails, Painting

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• To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that is has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all.

  Murray Kempton

  Thinking, Fashionable, Has Beens

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• You can kill a man, but you can't kill an idea.

  Medgar Evers

  Death, Men, Legacy

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