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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
Adhesion to one idea is monomania; to few, slavery. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
In art one idea is as good as another. -- Willem de Kooning
Great things are done by devotion to one idea. -- John Henry Newman
It's hard to get people to focus on one idea. -- Conor Oberst
All it takes is one idea to solve an impossible problem. -- Robert H. Schuller
All interpretations of history are propaganda for one idea or another. -- Selma Dabbagh
Most authors have one idea per book. Shakespeare had two per sentence. -- Lauren Hutton
I never could be a partisan leader - a man of one idea. -- Joshua Chamberlain
You know, interesting minds usually do hold more than one idea at a time. -- Anna Deavere Smith
He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong. -- Benjamin Disraeli
The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea -- Robert Henri
That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one. -- Samuel Johnson
Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else. -- Ugo Betti
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What usually happens with me [is that] I start with one idea in mind and then something else happens. -- Kathleen Hanna
The dangerous man is the one who has only one idea, because then he'll fight and die for it. -- Francis Crick
'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else. -- Ugo Betti
As soon as everyone is on the bandwagon with one idea, a leader should be working on the next one. -- Roger Enrico
I had one idea that never changed in my mind - that you should use your wealth to help people. -- Chuck Feeney
I've got one idea I want to do for a film and you know I just enjoy myself doing bits and pieces. -- Norman Wisdom
Men who have embraced one idea can live only by and for that idea. Beyond it, they have nothing but their memories. -- Guy Sajer
The man with but one idea in his head is sure to exaggerate that to top-heaviness, and thus he loses his equilibrium. -- Aaron Hill
Speed to fail should be every entrepreneur's motto. When you finally find the one idea that can't be killed, go with it. -- Jay Samit
We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind. -- Juan Antonio Samaranch
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You refuse to listen. Because, like every other man, you can keep only one idea in your head at a time-usully the wrong one. -- Loretta Chase
When I write on 'SNL,' I've found I'm most productive while collaborating and joking with friends and not being firmly attached to any one idea. -- Cecily Strong
The dangerous man is the one who has only one idea, because then he'll fight and die for it.[As quoted in The New Yorker, April 25, 2011] -- Francis Crick
A party with one idea; but that is a noble idea ... the idea of equality - the equality of all men before human tribunals and human laws. -- William H. Seward
I only have one idea, that is WhatsApp, and I am going to continue to focus on that. I have no plans to build any other ideas. -- Jan Koum
An acting teacher once told me, 'Greet everything with yes... Even if you abandon one idea for another one, saying yes allows you to move forward.' -- Tina Fey
Yes, I know,' interrupted Puddleglum. 'And few return to the sunlit lands. You needn't say it again. You are a chap of one idea, aren't you? -- C. S. Lewis
An artist who is inspired is being obvious. Heâ??s not making any decisions, heâ??s not weighing one idea against another. Heâ??s accepting his first thoughts. -- Keith Johnstone
Cut in dressmaking is like grammar in language. A good design should be like a well made sentence and it should only express one idea at a time, -- Charles James
Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another. -- Marva Collins
People without clear vision are easily distracted, have a tendency to drift from one idea to another and often make foolish decisions that rob them of their dreams. -- Andy Stanley
Philosophy is not one truth, but thousands of truths. You don't have to believe in just one thing. When you chose one idea, you close yourself to the rest. -- Marcel Wanders
What justifies a character singing one idea for 3 minutes on the screen? I get impatient and want the story to carry on. I don't get impatient in the theatre. -- Stephen Sondheim
To be successful a person must attempt but one reform. By urging two, both are injured, as the average mind can grasp and assimilate but one idea at a time. -- Susan B. Anthony
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. -- Francis Bacon
Terrible wars have been fought where millions have died for one idea - freedom. And it seems that something that means so much to so many people would be worth having. -- Robin Williams
Symmetry, as wide or as narrow as you may define its meaning, is one idea by which man through the ages has tried to comprehend and create order, beauty and perfection. -- Hermann Weyl
My mother's one idea was to sacrifice her life to her children and she had done nothing else since the death of my father. We wished that she had married again instead. -- Peggy Guggenheim
Don't stop. Narrow your focus to one idea, and make it work. That will give birth to all of the others. All you can do is plant the seed and water it. -- Tyler Perry
I have served one idea, marched under one banner - war against all imposed authority - against every kind of deprivation of freedom, in the name of the absolute independence of the individual. -- Alexander Herzen
We don't see very far in the future, we are very focused on one idea at a time, one problem at a time, and all these are incompatible with rationality as economic theory assumes it. -- Daniel Kahneman
The thing I have learned through the years is that one idea 'doth' not a novel make. A novel must be several seemingly unrelated ideas that somehow magically come together to create the fabric of the story. -- Katherine Paterson
Everyone has the ability to be creative. Everyone has the ability to connect one idea with another, to find an idea in another department, organization, or industry, and connect it with another to solve the challenge at hand. -- Elaine Dundon
Jean Renoir once suggested that most true creators have only one idea and spend their lives reworking it, but then very rapidly he added that most people don't have any ideas at all, so one idea is pretty amazing. -- Peter Greenaway
We all have one idea of what the color blue is, but pressed to describe it specifically, there are so many ways: the ocean, lapis lazuli, the sky, someone's eyes. Our definitions are as different as we are ourselves. -- Sarah Dessen
Let me die fighting. Two years of physical suffering have taken from me twenty years of life. But the soul changes not, does it? It is there, the same madcap - Atman - mad upon one idea, intent and intense. -- Swami Vivekananda
What happens with a lot of leaders is that their leadership style is like ADD; they are all over the place with different ideas. They could be driving one idea forward but then move on to something else too soon. -- Henry Cloud
It's the business of movies, it's the fights that go along with the level of budget, and more than anything, it's the creative constipation of having to live with one idea for two or three years. It's just not that fun. -- Matt Stone
You've got to develop mental strength. And you develop mental strength with the will. The will is the mental faculty that gives you the ability to hold one idea under the screen of your mind to the exclusion of all outside distractions. -- Bob Proctor
In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble. -- Willem de Kooning
Just as the sentence contains one idea in all its fullness, so the paragraph should embrace a distinct episode; and as sentences should follow one another in harmonious sequence, so paragraphs must fit into another like the automatic couplings of railway carriages. -- Winston Churchill
Messi makes the difference most of the time. In particular, he is always going forwards. He never passes the ball backwards or sideways. He has only one idea, to run towards the goal.So as a football fan, just enjoy the show. -- Zinedine Zidane
My normal lectures deal with the psychedelic experience as a generalized and historical phenomenon, but this effort at communication is slightly more personal in that it's an effort to impart [just] one idea that came out of an involvement with psychedelic substances. -- Terence McKenna
For me, it's been liberating to put myself in the mind of a fictitious six year-old each day, and rediscover my own curiosity. I've been amazed at how one idea leads to others if I allow my mind to play and wander. -- Bill Watterson
The idea of perfect closes your mind to new standards. When you drive hard toward one ideal, you miss opportunities and paths, not to mention hurting your confidence. Believe in your potential and then go out and explore it; don't limit it. -- John Eliot
YI think what's cool about 'Scott Pilgrim' is that it shows that there is a superhero within all of us. There's not one ideal image of what a superhero looks like, and you don't really see that until the end of the film. -- Ellen Wong
We still have to evolve, that's how we're created, we're created to evolve so you can believe in that the answer is in this book or in this one idea that the masses most believe in, each individual must evolve themselves, spiritually and consciously. -- Ziggy Marley
Because the beauty of the human body is that it hasn't a single muscle which doesn't serve its purpose; that there's not a line wasted; that every detail of it fits one idea, the idea of a man and the life of a man. -- Ayn Rand
I can't marry myself to one idea or one form of doing politics or one form of understanding politics. I believe that we have to play the game of strategy, and understand how to move the pieces because this is how the political spectrum functions. -- Bocafloja
There is, indeed, nothing more annoying than to be, for instance, wealthy, of good family, nice-looking, fairly intelligent, and even good-natured, and yet to have no talents, no special faculty, no peculiarity even, not one idea of one's own, to be precisely "like other people. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
If you happen to read fairy tales, you will observe that one idea runs from one end of them to the other--the idea that peace and happiness can only exist on some condition. This idea, which is the core of ethics, is the core of the nursery-tales. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
In my mind, I'm doing everything, but in reality, I'm doing very, very little. You come up with one idea, one moment, one line that leads to something and you feel like it's easy. And then, you sit back and think there would be no show without that. -- Timothy Olyphant
I believe that true beauty comes from inside you and that always shows through. I have no problem with whatever the next look is, whether it's big blonde hair and blue eyes or green hair and dark eyes. That's fine so long as there isn't just one ideal image. -- Alek Wek
The intellectual ... may live for ideas, as I have said, but something must prevent him from living for one idea, from becoming obsessive or grotesque. Although there have been zealots whom we may still regard as intellectuals, zealotry is a defect of the breed and not of the essence. -- Richard Hofstadter
There is, however, only one idea of duty which has been universally accepted by all mankind, of all ages and sects and countries, and that has been summed up in a Sanskrit aphorism thus: "Do not injure any being; not injuring any being is virtue, injuring any being is sin." -- Swami Vivekananda
Ideas any one can mould as he wishes. -- Josiah Royce
Good ideas are often murdered by better ones. -- Roddy Doyle
Ideas percolate. Through natural selection, the best ones survive. -- Andrew Lo
Ideas are one thing and what happens is another. -- John Cage
Ideas, like large rivers, never have just one source. -- Willy Ley
No one can resist the idea of a crippled genius. -- Stephen Hawking
One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas. -- Victor Hugo
A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. -- Mary Kay Ash
Deciding which ideas to save and which ideas to discard is one of society's most important tasks. -- Timothy Noah
An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself. -- Karl Kraus
The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away. -- Linus Pauling
Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea. -- Jim Rohn
Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique. -- Elizabeth Bowen
People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf. -- Ezra Pound
Individual freedom is a Jewish idea, but it's one of the functions of Christianity to make this idea universal. -- Michael Novak
Do not be afraid to offer ideas that draw opposition. Remember, if no one is against your idea, then your idea probably doesn't do anything. -- Marco Rubio
One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life. -- Napoleon Hill
In talking about the impact of ideas in one field on ideas in another field, one is always apt to make a fool of oneself. -- Richard P. Feynman
Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act. -- Andre Malraux
One idea lights a thousand candles. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One cannot resist an idea whose time has come. -- Victor Hugo
Just one great idea can completely revolutionize your life. -- Earl Nightingale
One man's idea of perfect order is another man's chaos. -- Dean Koontz
There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking. -- Omar Bongo
All good management is the expression of one great idea -- Robert Heller
A revolutionary idea is usually one with its sleeves rolled up. -- Navjot Singh Sidhu
No one can have an idea once he starts really listening. -- John Cage
One sound idea is all that you need to achieve success. -- Napoleon Hill
If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
One God idea is worth more than a thousand good ideas. -- Mark Batterson
One does not adopt a new idea, one slips into it. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
One good idea is all you need to start a fortune. -- Brian Tracy
No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit. -- Frederick Banting
An idea that no one believes can not be proved too often. -- George Bernard Shaw
One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it. -- Elizabeth Bowen
An idea does not pass from one language to another without change. -- Miguel de Unamuno
True success has more components than one sentence or idea can contain. -- Zig Ziglar
You have no idea what an appetite it gives one, being executed. -- C. S. Lewis
One generation's idea of fast pace might be different from a later generation's. -- David Morrell
The American idea that everyone graduates high school at 18 is a good one. -- David Miliband
Stereotypes are based on the idea that two heads are bigger than one. -- Anthony Marais
The fact is one thing and the idea about the fact is another. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
If you do not like an idea, challenge it with a better one! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man. -- Thomas More
But logic is not all, one needs one's heart to follow an idea. -- Richard P. Feynman
The idea of "race" represents one of the most dangerous myths of our time. -- Ashley Montagu
Realization consists of getting rid of the false idea that one is not realized. -- Ramana Maharshi
My message is a peaceful one and I hope that the idea will spread. -- Paul McCartney

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