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Great ideas originate in the muscles. -- Thomas A. Edison
A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties. -- Harriet Martineau
Great ideas have no attachment to either money or class. -- Ian Schrager
A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties. -- Harriet Martineau
Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash. -- Vladimir Nabokov
I love working with Darren Lynn Bousman. He is such a cool director with really great ideas. -- Alexa Vega
I am convinced that great ideas that are powerfully presented can change a mind in five minutes. -- Dennis Prager
You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one. -- Albert Einstein
Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book. -- Victor Hugo
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. -- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
My creative side is identifying all these great entrepreneurial creative people that come up with great ideas, whether they are in fashion or technology or a new tool to improve ourselves. -- Carmen Busquets
Research your idea. See if there's a demand. A lot of people have great ideas, but they don't know if there's a need for it. You also have to research your competition. -- Magic Johnson
Not every innovation in transportation is going to come from government or even a large enterprise. There are smart people out there with tools and skills to come up with great ideas. -- Anthony Foxx
I used to want to be a children's writer, because I would have all these great ideas when I was little, and I'd write them and draw them, and turn them into class. -- Jena Malone
Universities think people come up with great ideas by closing the door. The academic tenure process, where you have to publish to journals which are very narrow, stands in the way of great research. -- Clayton Christensen
There was absolutely no intention of splitting up. We had so many great ideas to use on the new album. John Paul Jones was incredible, coming to the studio each day with new instruments to play. -- John Bonham
It may be easily shown, and is of no small significance, that the two great ideas of which the Anglo-Saxon is the exponent are having a fuller development in the United States than in Great Britain. -- Josiah Strong
I think students should know something about religion as a historical phenomenon, in the same way that they should know something about socialism and humanism and the other great ideas that have shaped political philosophies and therefore the course of human events. -- Steven Pinker
Ideas must be put to the test. That's why we make things, otherwise they would be no more than ideas. There is often a huge difference between an idea and its realisation. I've had what I thought were great ideas that just didn't work. -- Andy Goldsworthy
I have great ideas, but the follow through is always really difficult for me. As my kid gets a little bit older, if I feel like I have a little bit more time on my hands, I'd like to get more into developing ideas and writing things. -- Busy Philipps
From the political angle, I'm trying to be apolitical if you will. I mean people say, 'Are you a red state or blue state?', I say, 'I'm purple.' I think there are great ideas on both sides of the aisle and neither side has cornered the market. -- Brad Thor
If you have a great day at work and you've been hit with all these great ideas and there's a lot of excitement on your team, your mind doesn't turn off. For years I've kept a pad of paper and pen by me at night, because things just occur to you. -- Anne Sweeney
It is not sufficient for the young to devote their enthusiasm, their courage, their ambition, their self-sacrifice to the great ideas of the time; the young must not only preserve but increase their powers if they are to be really equal to their eternal task: that of drawing the age in advance. -- Ellen Key
Being on a successful show is kind of like being a sea turtle. Every year, sea turtles lay hundreds and hundreds of eggs, but only a few manage to survive and mature. It's the same with TV pilots. There are so many great ideas, but for whatever reason only the lucky ones get picked up. -- Keiko Agena
I'm of the mindset that most people who have kids are, which is, 'Hey, I want another me. I like me. I'm pretty cool, and I've got really great ideas, and the way I think is the right way to think. Let's put another one of me out there.' So I'll have kids one day. -- David Cross
The money to fund great things and innovations and programs is gone in our lifetime; it's all gone to debt. So we won't be able to solve global warming or have the transportation that we needed for the 21st century. We should be supporting people with great ideas, but it's gone, and now it's gotta be paid back with interest to banks in China. -- Michael Moore
All great ideas are dangerous. -- Oscar Wilde
Great ideas are not charitable. -- Henry de Montherlant
Money is attracted to great ideas. -- Robert G. Allen
Great men may die, but there ideas won't. -- Kelly Nelson
Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings. -- Charles Douglas Jackson
If artists do have ideas, they're often not great. -- Hiro Murai
We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas. -- Steve Jobs
A genius is a man who has two great ideas. -- Jacob Bronowski
Great ideas come into the world as gently as doves. -- Albert Camus
When sparks fly, some truly great ideas come to light. -- David Heinemeier Hansson
You build your program from the ideas of great coaches. -- Don Meyer
Inspiration is the seed of imagination, where great ideas bloom -- Jennifer Sodini
Ridicule has historically proven itself a rickety fence for great ideas. -- Vanna Bonta
Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. -- Bill Moyers
A great idea is simply the combination of many good ideas. -- John C. Maxwell
There's no shortage of great ideas. There's a shortage of execution. -- Seth Godin
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Great companies don't throw money at problems, they throw ideas at problems. -- Greg McAdoo
Commerce is the great civilizer. We exchange ideas when we exchange fabrics. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. -- George Santayana
Great ideas can come from anywhere. There are no titles around an idea. -- Steve Stoute
Great minds with great ideas usually share in the midst of their persecution -- Jeremy Aldana
In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first. -- Nathan Fielder
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm. -- Thomas J. Watson
Discover the great ideas that lie inside you by discovering the power of sleep. -- Arianna Huffington
Even though you're a member of the wrong party, you've got some great ideas... -- Lynn Westmoreland
Great thinkers often learn, to their surprise, that new ideas are less than welcome. -- Gerd Gigerenzer
I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas. -- Alain de Botton
Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations. -- Frank Darabont
We all have great ideas. No one ever says, "I've got this terrible idea." -- Alexis Ohanian
Poor minds talk about people average minds talk about events great minds talk about ideas -- Eleanor Roosevelt
I've worked with a lot of great directors and often times they solicit your ideas. -- John C. Reilly
I have found that great ideas come when you have a great desire to have them. -- Charlie Chaplin
If you can get good at destroying your own wrong ideas, that is a great gift. -- Charlie Munger
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine. -- Fran Lebowitz
Rules are a great way to get ideas. All you have to do is break them. -- Jack Foster
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. -- Ray Bradbury
Inside the calm minds, great ideas swim serenely like the morning geese of the misty lakes! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
The great thing about the Internet is, it's the freest marketplace of ideas that there is. -- Alexis Ohanian
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size. -- Aristophanes
I know how to take good ideas and turn them into sensible law at great odds. -- Elizabeth Emken
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine." -- Fran Lebowitz
History is a great cemetery: men, deeds, ideas are always dying as soon as they are born. -- Simone de Beauvoir
I think social media is a great place to share ideas and to connect with other people. -- Kaitlyn Dever
It's fun to be loose. Just like on stage, all of your great ideas come from looseness. -- Debra Winger
Cheap is the last refuge of a product developer or marketer who is out of great ideas. -- Seth Godin
There are two kinds of great power which can shake the earth: Mega earthquakes and big ideas! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service. -- Joan Didion
We need innovation. We need great ideas that can be simply and effectively produced all over the place. -- Helen Clark
The great majority of men use their own short-sighted ideas as a yardstick for measuring the divine omnipotence. -- Therese of Lisieux
The religion itself may have some great ideas, but I can't take it seriously if it's blatantly exclusionary. -- David O. Russell
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless. -- Tim Blixseth
When people feel trusted, they'll begin to understand they are contributors--and you'll get great ideas and happy people. -- Eunice Parisi-Carew
To defeat all their enemies and be victorious! This is the unpreventable destiny of all the great ideas! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors. -- Stella Adler
The seeds of greatness are ideas you learn from people who've been great in their service to others. -- Denis Waitley
All great ideas start as weird ideas. What now seems obvious, early on, is not obvious to anybody. -- Steve Case
Great ideas travel slowly, and for a time noiselessly, as the gods whose feet were shod with wool. -- James A. Garfield
In order to go beyond ideas to direct realization, it's essential to have a great deal of purity. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
A great idea can change the world; but to change the universe, men need even much greater ideas! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
My great fear is not that I'll run out of ideas. It's that I'll run out of time. -- Jane Smiley
Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism. -- Bill Moyers
Great ideas behave like the Sun. Even in the middle of nowhere, they find people and shine on them! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
The essence of influence is pull. It's an attraction. Great influencers attract people, to themselves, and to their ideas. -- Bob Burg
I'm not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I look at is a great opportunity for ideas. -- Martha Stewart
To make something really great and different and interesting means taking risks and following these ideas in your head. -- Brad Bird
New materials are one of the great afflictions of contemporary art. Some artists confuse new materials with new ideas. -- Sol LeWitt
Any leader who asks the right questions of the right people has the potential to discover and develop great ideas. -- John C. Maxwell
Socrates, in Plato, formulates ideas of order: the Iliad, like Shakespeare, knows that a violent disorder is a great order. -- Harold Bloom
Heaven often protects valuable souls charged with great secrets, great ideas, by long shutting them up with their own thoughts. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Seeing other people do great work is its own form of inspiration and far more powerful than borrowing their ideas. -- Kody Chamberlain
Great actors try to dismiss all ideas from their conscious mind in order to provide an experience that is real. -- Mark Rylance
A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas. -- Henry Steele Commager
Expertise is great, but it has a bad side effect: It tends to create the inability to accept new ideas. -- Dean Williams
Every great religion is, in truth, a concentration of great ideas, capable, as all ideas are, of infinite expansion and adaptation. -- Mary Augusta Ward
What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion. -- Ralph Bakshi
We have the divinity of our great misery. And our solitude, with its toilsome ideas, tears and laughter, is fatally divine. -- Henri Barbusse
I think ideas are still the most powerful things on the planet, and music is a great way to transmit them. -- David Crosby
The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure of speech is too great for his income of ideas. -- Christopher Morley
Small minds cannot grasp great ideas; to their narrow comprehension, their purblind vision, nothing seems really great and important but themselves. -- James G. Frazer
Einstein was a great advocate of the notion that good ideas look absurd at the beginning. Camus expressed a similar view. -- Michael Leunig
Small minds cannot grasp great ideas; to their narrow comprehension, their purblind vision, nothing seems really great and important but themselves. -- James G. Frazer
I really don't want to copy something to a great degree, but I love taking tiny ideas and putting them together. -- Joe Goddard
One of my philosophies as a director is to listen to other people's great ideas because they'll help make you better. -- Jonathan Frakes
Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality. -- James A. Garfield
This was a time of great intellectual excitement for me. Both college and law school opened up new worlds of ideas. -- Samuel Alito
I've had really great experiences working with first-time directors. They come at filmmaking with fresh ideas. I've been very lucky that way. -- Jeff Bridges
Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas. -- Charles Fillmore
To die for one's great ideas is glorious - and easy. The horror is to outlive them. That is our worst capability. -- Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
How you frame an issue shapes how it is viewed by others. Great advocates frame their ideas as problems that need solutions. -- John Daly
Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas. -- Walter Isaacson
The idea, which constitutes the actual being of the human mind, is not simple, but compounded of a great number of ideas. -- Baruch Spinoza
Little minds think and talk about people. Average minds think and talk about things and actions. Great minds think and talk about ideas. -- Benjamin Franklin
It's difficult for a company to be anywhere interesting in a world that is so dominated by prototypes and great and bright ideas. -- Marcel Wanders

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