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Saturday, 11 October 2008
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"It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it." (Byron, Lord - Life and Living)

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A crank is someone with a new idea -- until it catches on.
A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank.
A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.
A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.
A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.
A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
A new idea is like a child. It's easier to conceive than to deliver.
A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.
A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.
A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.
All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
An idea discovered is much better possessed.
An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.
An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.
An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.
An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it.
An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.
An idea is the only level which moves the world.
An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.
Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea.
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!
Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
Eureka! I've got it.
Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.
Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: (1) It's completely impossible. (2) It's possible, but it's not worth doing. (3) I said it was a good idea all along.
Everything begins with an idea.
Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!
Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something.
Go out and buy yourself a five-cent pencil and a ten-cent notebook and begin to write down some million-dollar ideas for yourself.
Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courageous patience.
Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.
Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings.
Great ideas originate in the muscles.
Great people talk about ideas. Small people talk about other people.
Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
Hang ideas! They are tramps, vagabonds, knocking at the back-door of your mind, each taking a little of your substance, each carrying away some crumb of that belief in a few simple notions you must cling to if you want to live decently and would like to die easy!
Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.
He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.
I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.
I'm not impressed with the power of a corporate president. I am impressed with the power of ideas.
Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.
Ideas are fatal to caste.
Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Their acquisition obligates each man in some way to change his life, even if it is only his inner life. They demand to be stood for. They dictate where a man must concentrate his vision. They determine his moral and intellectual priorities. They provide him with allies and make him enemies. In short, ideas impose an interest in their ultimate fate which goes far beyond the realm of the merely reasonable.
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.
Ideas are the factors that lift civilization. They create revolutions. There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs.
Ideas are the roots of creation.
Ideas are, in truth, force.
Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.
Ideas control the world.
Ideas lose themselves as quickly as quail, and one must wing them the minute they rise out of the grass, or they are gone.
Ideas move fast when their time comes.
Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams.
Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.
Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.
Ideas too are a life and a world.
Ideas won't work unless you do.
Ideas... they have the power
If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he would make a fortune.
If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
If you have the same ideas as everybody else but have them one week earlier than everyone else then you will be hailed as a visionary. But if you have them five years earlier you will be named a lunatic.
If you pray for only one thing, .let it be for an idea.
If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person.
If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it.
In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.
In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations. Then someone got the idea that there were greater sources of supply deeper down. A well was drilled five thousand feet deep. The result? A gusher. Too many of us operate on the surface. We never go deep enough to find supernatural resources. The result is, we never operate at our best. More time and investment is involved to go deep but a gusher will pay off.
It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.
It first appeared like a crazy idea. It turned out he had a great idea.