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"Everyone who has ever taken a shower has had an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it that makes a difference."
-- Nolan Bushnell, Founder of Atari Computer

"The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out."
-- Dee Hock, visionary

"It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson (Poet and Essayist)

"Be a magnet for ideas. Set aside 5 minutes each day, at the same time, and if possible in the same place, to think about new ideas. Ideas are the key to success and it only takes one to make you rich. By setting up a time and place to generate new ideas, it becomes one of your goals and by acting on it, it will happen. Just a few good ideas will set you apart from your competition and propel you towards your goals. "
-- Edward W. Smith, author of Sixty Seconds To Success

"The best way to get a good idea is to get a lot of ideas."
-- Linus Pauling, two-time Nobel Prize winner

"Don't be afraid of new ideas. Be afraid of old ideas. They keep you where you are and stop you from growing and moving forward. Concentrate on where you want to go, not on what you fear."
-- Anthony Robbins

"Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen."
-- John Steinbeck, author

"Ideas are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny..."
-- Carl Schurz (1829-1906)

"Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied."
-- Arnold Glasgow (American psychologist)

"If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied."
-- Alfred Bernhard Nobel

"It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to always be right by having no ideas at all."
-- Edward De 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."
-- Edward deBono (1933-), Maltese psychologist and physician

"Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have."
-- Emile Chartier, French philosopher

"Now then, all of us should try to strive and give heed to the sudden ideas that come to us, and if we’ll give heed to them and cultivate an ear to hear theses promptings we too – each of us – can grow in the spirit of revelation."
-- Harold B. Lee

"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 {1561-1626 British Philosopher & Essayist

"There is a great idea that you will encounter again and again on your quest: you are a living magnet, constantly drawing to you the things, the people, and the circumstances which are in accord with your thoughts. In other words, you are where you are in experience, in relationships, even in financial conditions, because of what you are(which is where you are in consciousness)."
-- Eric Butterworth (1916-2003)

"We think good ideas to death, when we should be acting them to life."
-- Brian G. Jett

"When you take action on ideas and tactics you will begin to uncover great potential and begin to unleash it for the betterment of yourself, your organization and the world."
-- Kevin Eikenberry

"Any idea that is held in the mind that is either feared or revered will begin at once to clothe itself in the most convenient and appropriate physical forms available."
-- Andrew Carnegie