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Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
~ Swami Vivekananda
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A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.
~ Nelson Mandela
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Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.
~ Swami Vivekananda
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Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.
~ Maya Angelou
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It's difficult to believe in yourself because the idea of self is an artificial construction. You are, in fact, part of the glorious oneness of the universe. Everything beautiful in the world is within you.
~ Russell Brand
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“An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.”
~ Oscar Wilde
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“If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.”
~ Steve Jobs
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Ideas are like frog eggs: you've got to lay a thousand to hatch one.
~ Peter F. Drucker
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A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way, but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.
~ Albert Einstein
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Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than the one where they sprang up.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
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All of our existing ideas have creative possibilities.
~ Ken Robinson
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The most important thing is that you love what you are doing, and the second that you are not afraid of where your next idea will lead.
~ Charles Eames
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If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.
~ Albert Einstein
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If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
~ Alfred Nobel
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It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
~ Edward de Bono
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It is easier to tone down a wild idea than to think up a new one.
~ Alex Osborn
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New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion.
~ Henry David Thoreau
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Everything begins with an idea.
~ Earl Nightingale
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
~ Napoleon Hill
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In the realm of ideas, everything depends on enthusiasm. In the real world all rests on perseverance.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I have never had so many good ideas day after day as when I worked in the garden.
~ John Erskine
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To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
~ Susan B. Anthony
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I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing....
~ Thomas Alva Edison
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Having the world's best idea will do you no good unless you act on it. People who want milk shouldn't sit on a stool in the middle of a field in hopes that a cow will back up to them.
~ Curtis Grant
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An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, however, suffer for it.
~ Richard Bach
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An idea is salvation by imagination.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
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An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
~ Buddha
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Ideas are cheap and abundant; what is of value is the effective placement of those ideas into situations that develop into action.
~ Peter F. Drucker
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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.
~ John Steinbeck
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Ideas are the mightiest influence on earth. One great thought breathed into man may regenerate him.
~ William E. Channing
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If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
~ Joseph Campbell
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Most of my ideas belonged to other people who never bothered to develop them.
~ Thomas Alva Edison
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New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can’t be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it’s not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!
~ Arthur C. Clarke
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Nobody has a money problem – there are only idea problems.
~ Robert H. Schuller
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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.
~ Julia Cameron
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Nothing is so powerful as an idea whose hour has come.
~ Victor Hugo
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Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.
~ Rumi
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The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.
~ Linus Pauling
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The same source that gave you the idea, will give you the means to see it through.
~ Alan Cohen
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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come.
~ Isaac Newton
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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.
~ Mona Caird
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What moves men of genius, or rather what inspires their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.
~ Eugene Delacroix
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You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea. You can kill a man, but not an idea.
~ Benazir Bhutto
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You can kill a man but you can’t kill an idea.
~ Medgar Evers
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