Ideas Quotes - Page 6

• When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Forgiveness, Peace

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• Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done right.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dog

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• The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter — for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way. He lives and labors and hopes.

  Nikola Tesla

  Taken, Hard Work, Science

  Nikola Tesla, David Hatcher Childress (2000). “The Tesla Papers”, p.74, Adventures Unlimited Press

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• An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Truth, Lying, Checks

  Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). “the Revolt of the Masses”

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• The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.

  Bernard Baruch

  Communication, Important, Ability

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• The best ideas are common property.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Common

  "Moral Letters to Lucilius (Letter XII)". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1917.

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• This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

  Hortense Calisher

  Success, Writing, Acting

  Hortense Calisher (2013). “Herself: An Autobiographical Work”, p.62, Open Road Media

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• It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Evil, Dangerous, Interest

  General Theory of Employment (1936; 1947 ed.) ch. 24

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• Abstract ideas are the patterns two or more memories have in common.

  Rudolf Flesch

  Memories, Two, Patterns

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• To die for an idea is to set a rather high price upon conjecture.

  Anatole France

  Funny, Atheism, Conjecture

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If NATURE has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea... No one possesses the less, because every other possess the whole of it. 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

  Creativity, Thinking, Light

  Letter to Isaac McPherson, 13 Aug. 1813

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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, Knowing, People

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• If you don't execute your ideas, they die.

  Roger von Oech

  Dies, Ifs

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• Produce as many ideas as possible. Try to produce unlikely ideas.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Trying, Unlikely, Produce

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• I use the gallery as if it were a doctor. I come for ideas and help - to look at situations within painting, rather than paintings.

  Lucian Freud

  Doctors, Use, Looks

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• Currents of energy shimmer through our bodies. Like shooting stars, we rocket through spacious stillness. But this silent, unmoving background is nothing like the granite ideas we use trying to take root in groundless soil.

  Anthony Lawlor

  Stars, Roots, Trying

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• Ideas are intelligent active things which present themselves to your consciousness for expression. You can only be receptive and express them as they will be expressed.

  Harvey Dunn

  Intelligent, Expression, Consciousness

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• A person with imprecise ideas can understand little and be of less help to others.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Littles, Helping, Persons

  Ignatius of Loyola, Joseph Munitiz (1996). “Personal Writings”, p.249, Penguin UK

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• I love being inside my brain and pushing myself to think in ever more complex ways because I know the ideas are there for the taking. It's all about being focused and disciplined and making use of one's abilities.

  Nancy Crow

  Love Is, Thinking, Brain

  Nancy Crow (2006). “Nancy Crow”

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• My ideas are all the same but look different.

  Maurizio Cattelan

  Different, Looks

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• One should conquer the world, not to enthrone a man, but an idea; for ideas exist forever.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Men, Conquer The World, Forever

  Benjamin Disraeli (1847). “Tancred: Or, The New Crusade”, p.293

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• I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

  John Cage

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "Conversing with Cage". Book by Richard Kostelanetz, 1988.

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• Great ideas originate in the muscles.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Life, Motivation, Work

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• Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Motivational, Courage, Clever

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• I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Funny, Morning, Acceptance

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