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The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn
better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible.
Author: Unattributed Author
Source: Yale Univ. professor on Fred Smith's idea for FedEx delivery service
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Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when a man has only one
idea.
Author: Unattributed Author
Source: Yale Univ. professor on Fred Smith's idea for FedEx delivery service
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It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same
ideas make their appearance in the world.
Author: Aristotle
Source: "Manual of Greek Mathematics" by T.L. Heath (On The Heavens)
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If at first the idea is absurd, then there is no hope for it.
Author: Aristotle
Source: "Manual of Greek Mathematics" by T.L. Heath (On The Heavens)
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You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've
only ever had one.
Author: Aristotle
Source: "Manual of Greek Mathematics" by T.L. Heath (On The Heavens)
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What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.
Author: Jean Genet
Source: The Blacks
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live
with you for the rest of your life.
Author: Randall Jarrell
Source: Pictures from an Institution (pt. I, ch. 4)
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The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.
Author: Randall Jarrell
Source: Pictures from an Institution (pt. I, ch. 4)
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All great ideas are dangerous.
Author: Randall Jarrell
Source: Pictures from an Institution (pt. I, ch. 4)
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Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
Author: Howard Aiken
Source: None
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If you steal ideas from one source, that's plagiarism, but if you steal ideas from more than one source, that's research.
Author: Laurendo Almeida
Source: None
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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
Author: F Scott Fitzgerald
Source: None
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When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
Author: Goethe
Source: None
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I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
Author: John Cage
Source: None
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He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
Source: None
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This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.
Author: Hortense Calisher
Source: None
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The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
Author: J Arthur Thomson
Source: None
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Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.
Author: Miriam Beard
Source: None
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It is by acts, and not by ideas that people live.
Author: Anatole France
Source: None
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