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• As far as bad ideas went, this stole the prize.

  Julia Quinn

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• I always told people in the private sector, ‘You can be the smartest person in the world, you can have the very best ideas, but if you can’t sell them and you can’t get other people to work with you, you’re not going to succeed.’

  Henry Paulson

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• Ideas are self-replenishing, like snot.

  Steve Aylett

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• My novels are all ideas.

  Michel Houellebecq

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• Ideas without action are like beautifully gift wrapped boxes with nothing inside.

  Michael Josephson

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• Most of my ideas just come out funny.

  Tim Heidecker

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• ‘Men don’t cry!’ ‘Women can’t handle money!’ What limiting ideas to live with.

  Louise L. Hay

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• We need to take our best ideas, our strongest intuitions, and we need to test them. We need to measure whether we’ve been successful, and we have to be willing to fail, to be wrong, to start over again with lessons learned.

  Angela Lee Duckworth

  Topics in Advice, Life

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• Every writer or wanna-be writer has ideas for books. The problem isn’t finding an idea, it’s choosing one.

  Jo Linsdell

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• It’s impossible to consider living without ideals. However, when ideas lead to ideology, that’s a very dangerous thing. Ideology then leads to creating the image of an enemy, and it leads to the murder and massacre that we’ve seen since the beginning of time.

  Michael Haneke

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• I’ve never yet run out of ideas what to write about… only out of time to write it in.

  Rayne Hall

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• It’s not enough to fill your head with wondrous ideas you must initiate action.

  Lorii Myers

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• Say it, no ideas but in things.

  William Carlos Williams

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• The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.

  Thornton Wilder

  Topics in Knowledge

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• Any powerful idea is absolutely fascinating and absolutely useless until we choose to use it.

  Richard Bach

  Topics in Life

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• Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself.

  Dōgen

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  Tags in Ideas, Learning

• On my walks, that’s when the good ideas come. The kind of hard, gritty work is when you’re sitting at the computer and it’s kind of intense and you’re kind of in super control of it – the walks are when you let go. That’s when the really big breakthroughs come in, and it’s very strange.

  Maria Semple

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• Nothing like a nighttime stroll to give you ideas.

  J. K. Rowling

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• The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them.

  Criss Jami

  Topics in Art

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• We have a visceral reaction to the idea that anyone would make very much money helping other people. Interesting that we don’t have a visceral reaction to the notion that people would make a lot of money NOT helping other people.

  Dan Pallotta

  Topics in Money

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