Ideas Quotations
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| A half-baked idea is okay as long as it's in the oven. | |||
| - Unknown Author | |||
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| One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. | |||
| - Walter Bagehot | |||
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| Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down. | |||
| - Hector Berlioz | |||
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| You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing. | |||
| - Warren Buffet | |||
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| I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. | |||
| - John Cage | |||
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| This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out. | |||
| - Hortense Calisher | |||
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| It is by acts and not by ideas that people live. | |||
| - Anatole France | |||
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| When ideas fail, words come in very handy. | |||
| - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | |||
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| I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it. | |||
| - Samuel Goldwyn | |||
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| Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. | |||
| - Oliver Wendell, Sr. Holmes | |||
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| An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy to be called an idea at all. | |||
| - Elbert Hubbard | |||
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| An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. | |||
| - Victor Hugo | |||
| Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river. | |||
| - Victor Hugo | |||
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| College isn't the place to go for ideas. | |||
| - Helen Keller | |||
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| Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. | |||
| - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg | |||
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| He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met. | |||
| - Abraham Lincoln | |||
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| An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe it. | |||
| - Don Marquis | |||
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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! | |||
| - Henry Louis Mencken | |||
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| I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught. | |||
| - Georgia O'Keeffe | |||
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| Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny. | |||
| - Carl Schurz | |||
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| The best ideas are common property. | |||
| - Lucius Annaeus Seneca | |||
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| If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice. | |||
| - Tom Stoppard | |||
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| I probably have traveled and walked into more variety stores than anybody in America. I am just trying to get ideas, any kind of ideas that will help our company. Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else. | |||
| - Sam Walton | |||
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| An idea is salvation by imagination. | |||
| - Frank Lloyd Wright | |||