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“Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.”
Thomas Alva Edison
“You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.”
Neil Gaiman
“All great ideas are dangerous.”
Oscar Wilde
“Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“What do I think of Western civilisation? I think it would be a very good idea.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Every one says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive.”
C.S. Lewis
“Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.”
Jim Rohn
“Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.”
Alfred Whitney Griswold
“It's a good idea not to major in minor things.”
Anthony Robbins
“For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.”