Jim Rohn
“Labor gives birth to ideas.”
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Helen Keller
“College isn't the place to go for ideas.”
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Anatole France
“It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.”
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Elbert Hubbard
“The brain is a commodity used to fertilize ideas.”
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Alain
“Every idea I get I have to deny, that's my way of testing it.”
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Earl Nightengale
"The greatest thing on earth is a good idea!"
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David O. McKay
"The most powerful thing in the world is an idea."
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Harriet Martineau
"A soul occupied with great ideas best performs small duties.
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Hortense Calisher
“This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.”
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Ken Hakuta
“Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.”
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Owen Laughlin
“Money never starts an idea. It is always the idea that starts the money.”
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Victor Hugo
“Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.”
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Carrie Latet
“An idea whose time has come was waiting there all along.”
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Author Unknown
"Little minds speak of persons, average minds of events, great minds of ideas."
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Linus Pauling
"The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas."
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Albert Einstein
“If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.”
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Linus Pauling
“The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas, and throw the bad ones away.”
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Victor Hugo
"No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come."
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Jean Ingelow
"A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life."
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.”
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Mark Amidon
“Language is the means of getting an idea from my brain into yours without surgery.”
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Francois Domergue
"Some people study all their life, and at their death they have learned everything except to think."
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Christian Bovee
"The greatest events of an age are its best thoughts. Thought finds its way into action."
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Henry Ford
"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it."
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Henry Ford
"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
"One single idea may have greater weight than all the men, animals, and machines for a century."
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Morris Ernst
"Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness."
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Arnold H. Glasgow
“An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.”
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Alfred North Whitehead
“The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.”
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Jim Rohn
“Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.”
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.”
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Author Unknown
“We have one of our greatest human experiences when we get an active idea working in our minds.”
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Victor Hugo
“There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.”
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
“Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.”
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Howard Aiken
“Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.”
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Hyman Rickover
“Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.”
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Rudolph Flesch
"Creative thinking may simply mean the realization that there is no particular virtue in doing things the way they have always been done."
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J. Golden Kimball
“I want to advise this people, if the Lord ever does give you an inspiration, for heaven's sake write it down and remember it."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force--that thoughts rule the world."
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Learned Hand
"We shall succeed only so far as we continue that most distasteful of all activity, the intolerable labor of thought."
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Sterling W. Sill
"If I were asked to give the best idea of which I am capable, it would be that we should get out of the junk business and then start laying up treasures in heaven."
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Edwin Chapin
"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."
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Nicholas Butler
"The problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work."
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Carl Schurz
“Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.”
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Francis Bacon
"A man would do well to carry a pencil in his pocket, and write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable, and should be secured, because they seldom return."
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Michael Leboeuf
“When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools.”
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George Bernard Shaw
“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.”
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Thomas Carlyle
"A thinking man is the worst enemy the Prince of Darkness can have; every time such an one announces himself, I doubt not there runs a shudder through the nether empire; and new emissaries are trained with new tactics, to, if possible, entrap and hoodwink and handcuff
him."
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