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"He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas."
John Ruskin
"I love the writing. I love the idea of typing and seeing it on the computer and printing it out myself and, you know, moving sentences around. I like that."
Carol Burnett
"The idea of stardom was difficult to grasp. It was like being schizophrenic; there was her, the woman on television, and the real me."
Jessica Savitch
"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism."
Carl Sagan
"The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas."
"I've been close to Dan and Kathryn for years and impressed by their financial ideas and philosophies. This new institute and release of their new program will allow them to achieve their dream of helping their fellow man as well as giving new hope to those in financial need."
Denis Waitley
"America's can-do spirit cast a warm glow across nations and cultures, generating more goodwill and support for our country's ideals and causes than had otherwise been possible."
Buzz Aldrin
"The decision to go to the moon is now appreciated and associated with President Kennedy's speech, but somebody else had told him it was a good idea. It turned out to be a good commitment, but it was a unique situation."
"Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many."
Baruch Spinoza
"Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions."
Johann Von Goethe
"Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game."
"The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas"
Edward Bono
"The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. 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."
"Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away."
Earl Nightingale
"Everything begins with an idea."
"You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea."
"Good ideas are common - what's uncommon are people who'll work hard enough to bring them about"
Ashleigh Brilliant
"The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope."
Henry Ward Beecher
"Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless."
Vauvenargues Marquis
"I'm an idealist without illusions."
John F Kennedy
"But how shall I get ideas? ''Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind -- Act!"
Orison Swett Marden
"The men and women who have the right ideals... are those who have the courage to strive for the happiness which comes only with labor and effort and self-sacrifice, and those whose joy in life springs in part from power of work and sense of duty."
Theodore Roosevelt
"An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor."
Robert Frost
To sit on an idea or fail to act on a goal is not really goal-setting, but wishful thinking.
Les Brown