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• When you once get an idea in which you believe with all your heart, work it out.

  Henry Ford

  Believe, Heart, Working It

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• I'm not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I look at is a great opportunity for ideas.

  Martha Stewart

  Opportunity, Looks, Sponges

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• A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Intelligent, Men, Soldier

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• Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Hope, Past, May

  "Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (A Retrospective Glance at the Lifework of a Master of Books)". Book by Gaston Bachelard edited by Suzanne Bachelard, 1988.

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• Ideas are like matter, infinitely divisible. It is not given to us to get down so to speak to their final atoms, but to their molecular groupings-the way is never ending and the progress infinitely delightful and profitable.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Progress, Matter, Way

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• You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea: you can not put an idea up against a barracks-square wall and riddle it with bullets: you cannot confine it in the strongest prison cell that your slaves could ever build.

  Sean O'Casey

  Wall, Cells, Squares

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• One of the secrets to success is ideas mixed with inspiration

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 29, 2017

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• Don't be afraid to stumble. Any inventor will tell you that you don't follow a plan far before you strike a snag. If, out of 100 ideas you get one that works, it's enough.

  Charles Kettering

  Enough, Strikes, Working It

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• The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Twitter post from Jan 30, 2017

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• Here's what is exciting about sharing ideas with others: If you share a new idea with ten people, they get to hear it once and you get to hear it ten times.

  Jim Rohn

  People, Share, Exciting

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Sep 04, 2016

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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.

  Dale Carnegie

  Mines, Borrowed

  Newsweek, August 08, 1955.

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• If you can dream it, you can make it so.

  Belva Davis

  Inspirational, Positive, Dream

  Belva Davis, Vicki Haddock (2011). “Never in My Wildest Dreams: A Black Woman's Life in Journalism”, p.215, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man may aspire, and yet be quite content until it is time to raise; and both flying and resting are but parts of one contentment. The very fruit of the gospel is aspiration. It is to the heart what spring is to the earth, making every root, and bud, and bough desire to be more.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Spring, Heart, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life thoughts gathered from the extemporaneous discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, by E.D. Procter”, p.72

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• Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers.

  Brooks Atkinson

  Men, Two, Three

  Brooks Atkinson (1951). “Once Around the Sun”

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• Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented.

  Hannah Arendt

  Events, Distinguished, Unprecedented

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• Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds. Remy de Gourmont An idea is salvation by imagination

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Lying, Simple, Imagination

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• It is only liquid currents of thought that move men and the world

  Wendell Phillips

  Moving, Men, World

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• By what strange law of mind is it that an idea long overlooked, and trodden under foot as a useless stone, suddenly sparkles out in new light, as a discovered diamond?

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Law, Feet, Light

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.364, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

  Andre Malraux

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Don't use your mind for a filing cabinet. Use your mind to work out problems and find answers; file away good ideas in your journal.

  Jim Rohn

  Filing Cabinet, Work Out, Mind

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jul 17, 2015

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• Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have.

  Emile Chartier

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Wisdom

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• The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Wise, History, Mankind

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1849). “Notes and Lectures Upon Shakespeare and Some of the Old Poets and Dramatists: With Other Literary Remains of S. T. Coleridge”, p.131

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• Banning guns is an idea whose time has come.

  Joe Biden

  Gun, Gun Control, Gun Rights

  Interview to Associated Press, www.nwitimes.com. November 18, 1993.

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• I have always lived my life by thriving on opportunity and adventure. Some of the best ideas come out of the blue, and you have to keep an open mind to see their virtue.

  Richard Branson

  Adventure, Opportunity, Blue

  Richard Branson (1999). “Losing my virginity: how I've survived, had fun, and made a fortune doing business my way”, Crown Business

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• A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions. There is something about a well-worded question that often penetrates to the heart of the matter and triggers new ideas and insights.

  Brian Tracy

  Motivational, Success, Wise

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Jul 21, 2013

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