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“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
Oscar Wilde
“Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies... It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it.”
Albert Einstein
“I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.”
“Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas”
Paula Poundstone
“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, that is way great spiritual giants are produced.”
Swami Vivekananda
“The value of an idea lies in the using of it.”
Thomas Alva Edison
“An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.”
“We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.”
Anais Nin
