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Samuel Goldwyn
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| "(but, in rebuttal) When, however, the lay public rallies round an
idea that is denounced by distinguished but elderly scientists and
supports that idea with great fervor and emotion the distinguished but
elderly scientists are then, after all, probably right." | |
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Isaac Asimov
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| "A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor
may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another. Accordingly, my
principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant but
misdirected ideas of others." | |
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Thomas Alva Edison
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| "A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea
will keep you awake during the night." | |
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Marilyn vos Savant
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| "A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives
on." | |
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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| "A man?s mind stretched by a new idea, can never go back to its
original dimensions." | |
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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| "A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it
can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the
right person"s brow." | |
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Charles Brower
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| "Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea." | |
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Robert Half
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| "All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an
idea." | |
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Napoleon Hill
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| "All the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking
a cow." | |
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Grant Wood
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| "An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs
against it." | |
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William Bernbach
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| "An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you
elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought." | |
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Pablo Picasso
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| "An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it." | |
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Don Marquis
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| "An idea is salvation by imagination." | |
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Frank Lloyd Wright
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| "An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the
brain cell it occupied." | |
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Arnold H. Glasow
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| "An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy to be called an idea at
all." | |
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Elbert Hubbard
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| "An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the
force of a revelation." | |
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William James
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| "An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a
cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup." | |
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Henry Louis Mencken
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| "Be more severe to ideas than to actions; do not over look the
strength of the bad cause or the weakness of the good." | |
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John Dalberg, Lord Acton
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| "Crank ? a man with a new idea until it succeeds." | |
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Mark Twain
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| "Don"t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any
good, you"ll have to ram them down people"s throats." | |
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Howard Aiken
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| "Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be
alcohol or morphine or idealism." | |
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Carl Gustav Jung
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| "Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain
errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the
achievements of the human." | |
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Jean Rostand
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| "General notions are generally wrong." | |
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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| "Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it"s
done right." | |
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Walter Elias Disney
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| "Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into
practice with courageous patience." | |
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Hyman George Rickover
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| "He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I
know." | |
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Abraham Lincoln
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| "He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself
without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine receives light
without darkening me." | |
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Thomas Jefferson
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| "I am an idealist. I don"t know where I"m going, but I"m on my
way." | |
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Carl Sandburg
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| "I am interested in the shape of ideas even if I do not believe in
them. There is a wonderful sentence in Augustine ... "Do not despair: one
of the thieves was saved; do not presume: one of the thieves was damned."
That sentence had a wonderful shape. It is the shape that matters." | |
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Samuel Beckett
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| "I can"t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I"m
frightened of the old ones." | |
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John Cage
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| "Idealism increases in direct proportion to one"s distance from the
problem." | |
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John Galsworthy
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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 reach your destiny." | |
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Carl Schurz
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| "Ideas are fatal to caste." | |
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Edward Morgan "E. M." Forster
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| "Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle
them, and pretty soon you have a dozen." | |
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John Ernst Steinbeck
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| "Ideas won"t keep; something must be done about them." | |
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Alfred North Whitehead
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| "Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented." | |
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Hannah Arendt
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| "If a man hasn"t discovered something he will die for, he isn"t fit
to live." | |
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
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| "In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed." | |
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Unknown
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| "Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more
importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people"s
values." | |
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Gerald Brenan
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| "It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in
ideas, and not in circumstances." | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is
refutable." | |
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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| "Little words never hurt a big idea." | |
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Howard W. Newton
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| "Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in
the one where they sprang up." | |
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
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| "Money never starts an idea; it is the idea that starts the
money." | |
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W. J. Cameron
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| "No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant
idealism." | |
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Sir Winston Churchill
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| "No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern; no idea is so
modern that it will not someday be antiquated." | |
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Ellen Glasgow
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| "Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just
discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own." | |
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Sydney J. Harris
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| "Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead
of men." | |
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Mortimer Jerome Adler
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| "Now, ideas are the raw material of progress. Everything first takes
shape in the form of an idea. But an idea itself is worth nothing. An
idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can
accomplish anything. The men who have won fame and fortune through having
an idea are those who devoted every ounce of their strength and every
dollar they could muster to putting it into operation. Ford had a big
idea, but he had to sweat and suffer and sacrifice to make it work." | |
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B. C. Forbes
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| "On Western civilization: "I think it would be a good idea."" | |
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Mahatma Gandhi
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| "Show me the man you honor, and I will show you the kind of a man you
are, for it shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man
you long to be." | |
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Thomas Carlyle
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| "Some ideas are so stupid that only an intellectual could believe
them." | |
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Michael Levine
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| "The best way to get great ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw
the bad ones away." | |
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Charles "Chic" Thompson
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| "The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who represent
the established order that your ideas will upset." | |
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| "The public interest is best served by the free exchange of
ideas." | |
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Judge John Kane
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| "The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea
into the water of mediocrity." | |
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Eric Hoffer
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| "The value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity
of the man who expresses it." | |
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Oscar Wilde
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| "The vast majority of human beings dislike and even dread all notions
with which they are not familiar. Hence it comes about that at their first
appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and madmen." | |
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Aldous Huxley
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| "The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are
possessed by them." | |
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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| "There are some things only intellectuals are crazy enough to
believe." | |
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George Orwell
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| "There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact
of a new idea." | |
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Percy Williams Bridgman
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| "There is nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy
concept." | |
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Ansel Adams
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| "Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action." | |
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Dr. David Seabury
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| "Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds." | |
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Remy de Gourmant
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| "We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by
their acts." | |
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Harold Nicolson
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| "We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of
ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your
thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to
be, always, everywhere ? your ideal of what you long to attain ? the ideal
of health, efficiency, success." | |
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Orison Swett Marden
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| "When ideas fail, words come in very handy." | |
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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| "When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are
very apt to walk straight into the gutter." | |
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Logan Pearsall Smith
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| "Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen
hunting for words." | |
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Josh Billings
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| "You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can"t get them across, your
ideas won"t get you anywhere." | |
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Lee Iacocca
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| "You can"t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them
by ignoring them." | |
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Ursula K. LeGuin
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| "You cannot expect the Form before the Idea,For they will come into
being together." | |
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Arnold Schoenberg
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