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An idea is a conception of the mind

• Idea: A thought, plan, or suggestion about what to do. Merriam Webster  
• Idea: Any conception existing in the mind as a result of mental understanding, awareness, or activity.  Dictionary.com
• Idea:  Something, such as a thought or conception, that is the product of mental activity. The American Heritage Dictionary
• The brain is a commodity used to fertilize ideas. Elbert Hubbard
• Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive. Napoleon Hill
• Explore new ideas,  Creativity,  Innovation,  Incubation,  Thinking,  Understanding

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Ideas are infinite thoughts

• Ideas and thoughts collide and sort themselves out in these fruitful collisions. Frederick Sommer
• Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts. Friedrich Von Schlegel
• Let your thoughts meander towards a sea of ideas. Leo D. Minnigh

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Ideas contain great power

• Ideas are, in truth, force. Henry James
• There is nothing in the world more powerful than an idea. No weapon can destroy it; no power can conquer it except the power of another idea. James R. Smith
• An idea is the only level which moves the world. Arthur F. Corey
• There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs. John Vincent
• There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come. Victor Hugo
• Libraries were full of ideas–perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons. Sarah J. Maas
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Ideas govern the world

• Ideas control the world. James A. Garfield
• We are governed not by armies, but by ideas. Mona Caird
• A stand can be made against invasion by an army; no stand can be made against invasion by an idea. Victor Hugo
• It is useless to send armies against ideas. George Brandes
• An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. Victor Hugo
• Thoughts are like burning stars, and ideas, they flood, they stretch the universe. Criss Jami

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Ideas create revolutions and lift civilisation

• Ideas are the factors that lift civilization. They create revolutions. There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs. John H. Vincent
• When an idea reaches critical mass, there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce. Marianne Williamson
• Ideas shape the course of history. John Maynard Keynes

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Ideas create progress

• Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind. Ron Hubbard
• A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world’s ignorance and press for admission. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
• Every new subject or idea produces a host of creative by-products, initially seen as irrelevant, but available for fashioning in novel new directions. Michael Michalko
• Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change. Barbara Januszkiewicz
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Ideas can endure …

• A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. John F. Kennedy
• A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death. John F. Kennedy
• You can kill a man, but you can’t kill an idea. Medgar Evers
• The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal. William Lippmann
• Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea… and ideas are bulletproof. Alan Moore, V for Vendetta
• Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end. Neil Gaiman, American Gods

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… but can be killed too, especially at the start …

• Big Ideas are so hard to recognize, so fragile, so easy to kill. Don’t forget that, all of you who don’t have them. John Elliot, Jr.
• A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man’s brow. Charles Brower
• If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it. Charles Kettering
• Big ideas are little ideas that no-one killed too soon. Seth Godin
• Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice. Sidney J. Harris

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… especially by committees

• If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it. Charles Kettering
• A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled. Sir Barnett Cocks

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Ideas cannot be confined

• Ideas move fast when their time comes. Carolyn Heilbrun
• You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea; you cannot put an idea up against the barrack-square wall and riddle it with bullets; you cannot confine it in the strongest prison cell your slaves could ever build. Sean O’Casey
• Ideas cross mountains, borders, and seas. They go anywhere a man can go… The Houston Times

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Ideas denote freedom

• The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom. Lady Bird Johnson
• The public interest is best served by the free exchange of ideas. John Kane
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Ideas can change our lives

• Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea. Jim Rohn
• Ideas are the mightiest influence on earth. One great thought breathed into man may regenerate him. William E. Channing
• You are only one inch, one step, one idea, from turning onto the boulevard of beauty in your own life. Somerset Maughan
• Change,  Transformation

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Ideas stretch and expand our minds

• A mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. Oliver Wendall Holmes
• The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size. Albert Einstein

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Ideas open new possibilities

• Ideas are the source of all things. Plato
• All of our existing ideas have creative possibilities. Sir Ken Robinson
• New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can’t be done; 2) It probably can be done, but it’s not worth doing; 3) I knew it was a good idea all along! Arthur C. Clarke
• 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 Edison
• As long as your ideas of what’s possible are limited by what’s actual, no other idea has a chance. Susan Neiman
• Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible. Pearl Bailey
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Ideas inspire

• A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. Mary Kay Ash
• The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before. Elbert Hubbard
• It is already a great thing if the main ideas and general outline of a work come without any racking of brains, as the result of that supernatural and inexplicable force we call inspiration. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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Ideas attract more ideas

• … a good idea always attracts other good ideas. Patrick Ness
• All ideas grow out of other ideas. Anish Kapoor
• Where do ideas come from? Ideas come from other ideas. Ira Glass
• The really good idea is always traceable back quite a long way, often to a not very good idea which sparked off another idea that was only slightly better, which somebody else misunderstood in such a way that they then said something which was really rather interesting. John Cleese
• If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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Ideas are a source of achievement and wealth …

• All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea. Napoleon Hill
• All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas –not money. Robert Collier
• Everything begins with an idea. Earl Nightingale
• Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes. Napoleon Hill
• Money never starts an idea; it is the idea that starts the money. William J. Cameron
• Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle. Ken Hakuta
• Ideas are the roots of creation. Ernest Dimnet
• There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Money never starts an idea. It is always the idea that starts the money.  Owen Laughlin
• Achievement,  Wealth

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… and can bring great success in life

• To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings. Rosabeth Moss Kanter
• The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success. Henry Ward Beecher
• Success is often just an idea away. Frank Tyger
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Ideas are the life blood of businesses

• Capital isn’t so important in business. Experience isn’t so important. You can get both these things. What is important is ideas. If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn’t any limit to what you can do with your business and your life. Harvey Firestone
• After years of telling corporate citizens to ‘trust the system’, many companies must relearn instead to trust their people and encourage them to use neglected creative capacities in order to tap the most potent economic stimulus of all: idea power. Rosabeth Moss Kanter
• The new idea either finds a champion or it dies. No ordinary involvement with a new idea provides the energy required to cope with the indifference and resistance that change provokes. Tom Peters
• A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank. John Berry
• Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas. Charles Fillmore
• So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs. Dorothea Brande
• Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent. Antoine Rivarol
• You look at any giant corporation, and I mean the biggies, and they all started with a guy with an idea, doing it well. Irvine Robbins

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Having ideas is one of the great sources of joy and excitement in life

• The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing. Edith Wharton
• The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas. Joseph Addison
• The simple joy of taking an idea into one’s own hands and giving it proper form – that’s exciting. George Nelson
• Not to engage in this pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men. Mortimer J. Adler
• A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life. Jean Ingelow
• Dreams, ideas, and plans not only are an escape, they give me purpose, a reason to hang on. Steven Callahan
• Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I’m borrowing energy from the ideas themselves. Ray Bradbury
• I have a little brown cocoon of an idea that may possibly expand into a magnificent month of fulfillment… Lucy Maud Montgomery
• It is not easy to convey, unless one has experienced it, the dramatic feeling of sudden enlightenment that floods the mind when the right idea finally clinches into place. Francis Harry Compton Crick
• Is there magic in this world? Certainly! But it is not the kind of magic written about in fantasy stories. It is the kind of magic that comes from ideas and the hard work it often takes to make them real. Robert Fanney
• Joy,  Excitement

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Having great ideas is the essence of genius

• I often joke with my audiences that I make most of my income on a ski pole. People smile but they get my point. You need to make time for your genius to flow. We get our creative bursts, those idea torrents that take our business and personal lives to the next level, while we are skiing or drinking coffee in a Starbucks or walking in the woods or meditation with a sunrise. Those pursuits are not a waste of time. Creativity comes when you are relaxed, happy and enjoying the moment. And when it comes, it brings ideas that rock your world. Robin Sharma
• Genius lies not in thinking of ideas, but in the ability to execute the ideas. Jane McElyea
• Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
• It is the essence of genius to make use of the simplest ideas. Charles Peguy
• We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later. Louis Aragon
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Ideas can come from a deep place …

• Ideas come from God. Albert Einstein
• When we conceive a new idea, we are thinking directly from the creativity of God. Ernest Holmes
• I have had work or ideas come through me from a source that I honestly cannot identify. And what is that thing? And how are we to relate to it in a way that will not make us lose our minds, but, in fact, might actually keep us sane? Elizabeth Gilbert

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… often as a revelation

• An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation. William James
• Eureka! I’ve got it. Archimedes

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Ideas are a feat of the imagination

• Few ideas are in themselves practical. It is for want of imagination in applying them that they fail. The creative process does not end with an idea – it only starts with an idea. John Arnold
• An idea is salvation by imagination. Frank Lloyd Wright
• A rich imagination nurtured by anything it can soak up – memories, travels, dreams or encounters become fused and erupt into an idea. David R. Becker
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Be open to new ideas …

• Don’t be astonished at new ideas; you know it does not cease to be true because it is not accepted by many. Benedict de Spinoza
• The danger is that in reaction to abuses and distortions of an idea, we’ll reject it completely. And in the process miss out on the good of it, the worth of it, the truth of it. Rob Bell
• Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many. Baruch Spinoza
• Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure…make sure you are always receptive to new ideas. George Crane
• The thing is, it’s very dangerous to have a fixed idea. A person with a fixed idea will always find some way of convincing himself in the end that he is right. Atle Selberg
• Only ideas keep ideas flowing. When we close our minds to what is new, simply because we decide not to bother with it, we close our minds to our responsibility to ourselves – and to others – to keep on growing. Joan Chittister
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… being aware that the natural tendency is to resist new ideas

• The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. B. Medawar
• We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us. Friedrich Nietzche
• Man’s fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness. Morris L. Ernst
• A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it. Marcel Proust
• Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories, they are habits, predispositions, deeply ingrained attitudes of diversion and preference. John Dewey
• The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust. Arthur Schopenhauer
• The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who represent the established order that your ideas will upset. Anthony J. D’Angelo

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… for new ideas can actually be painful

• The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him, the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea. Pearl S. Buck
• One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. Walter Bagehot
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Learn to entertain contradictory ideas

• The point is that profound but contradictory ideas may exist side by side, if they are constructed from different materials and methods. and have different purposes. Each tells us something important about where we stand in the universe, and it is foolish to insist that they must despise each other. Neil Postman
• 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. F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Shed old ideas that no longer work

• It’s not bringing in the new ideas that’s so hard; it’s getting rid of the old ones. John Maynard Keynes
• It’s easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago but will soon be out of date. Roger von Oech
• The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones. John Maynard Keynes
• We all are learning, modifying, or destroying ideas all the time. Rapid destruction of your ideas when the time is right is one of the most valuable qualities you can acquire. You must force yourself to consider arguments on the other side. If you can’t state arguments against what you believe better than your detractors, you don’t know enough. Charlie Munger
• I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me – shapes and ideas so near to me – so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn’t occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught. Georgia O’Keeffe
• The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds. John Maynard Keynes
• We are prisoners of ideas. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Many ideas are good for a limited time — not forever. Robert Townsend
• The greatest difficulty in the world is not for people to accept new ideas, but to make them forget old ideas. Tom Peters
• Sometimes, to pursue a new idea, the artist must forfeit his deposit on an old idea. Robert Brault
• Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves. Andre Gide
• No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated. Ellen Glasgow
• It’s not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas. Edwin Land
• If you want to have clean ideas, change them as often as you change your shirts. Francis Picabia

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Let go of pre-conceived ideas

• A child sees everything, looks straight at it, examines it, without any preconceived idea; most people, after they are about eleven or twelve, quite lose this power, they see everything through a few preconceived ideas which hang like a veil between them and the outer world. Olive Schreiner
• I try to begin working with no preconceived ideas. Jerry Uelsmann
• I start with no preconceived idea – discovery excites me to focus… Edward Weston

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Seek out and explore new ideas

• A man practices the art of adventure when he is unafraid of new ideas, new theories and new philosophies. When he has the curiosity to experiment–to test and try new ways of living and thinking. Wilfred A. Peterson
• I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones. John Cage
• Be an explorer. Actively seek out new ideas. There are new worlds, options, products, friends, methods and ideas waiting to be discovered. Venture off the beaten path. John Kehoe
• Go exploring. Explore ideas, places, and opinions. The inside of the echo chamber is where all the boring people hang out.   Jessica Hagy
• We need – and should encourage and honour – not only discoverers of facts hitherto unknown but explorers of ideas and rethinkers of values. Walter Moberly
• The more ideas one is free to explore, the more likely a truly creative idea can emerge. Michael Bell
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Most of all, generate new ideas of your own

• You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness. Terence McKenna
• If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself. Rollo May

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To generate new ideas, learn how to think creatively …

• Creativity consists of coming up with many ideas, not just that one great idea. Charles Thompson
• Creative thinking – in terms of idea creativity – is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured. Edward de Bono
• Creativity is the capacity within individuals to develop ideas for the purpose of solving problems and exploiting opportunities. Mark Batey
• Creativity is the ideas expressed after summoning everything you’ve learned and disregarding everything you know. It’s the ability to get out of the way of one’s originality and imagination. Dan Greenberger
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… realising that analytical thinking rarely leads to original ideas

• Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see. Edward de Bono
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To create a good idea, you need to come up with many ideas

• If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied. Alfred Nobel
• If you’re waiting to have a good idea before you have any ideas, you won’t have many ideas. David Allen
• 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 De Bono
• Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have. Emile Chartier
• The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas. Linus Pauling
• The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away. Linus Pauling
• To have a great idea, have a lot of them. Thomas A. Edison
• Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them and pretty soon you have a dozen. John Steinbeck
• You can’t have good ideas unless you’re willing to generate a lot of bad ones. Seth Godin
• To have good ideas, you have to have a lot of ideas. Linus Pauling

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To generate new ideas, brainstorm

• Clearly state the problem or topic and make sure everyone understands. Ask each team member to present his or her ideas. Record all the ideas exactly as given.  No judgements are made until the end of the session.  After all the ideas are listed, check for clarification by the team member.  The group then examines each idea in turn and perhaps combining or eliminating some. Suzanne Turner
• Have someone in charge to help enforce the following guidelines: Suspend judgment. Every idea is accepted and recorded. Encourage people to build on the ideas of others. Encourage way-out and odd ideas. Michael Morgan
• The basis of brainstorming is a generating of ideas in a group situation based on the principle of suspending judgment. Charles Cave

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To generate new ideas, let go of the fear of being wrong

• 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 de Bono
• Fear,  Let go of the need to be right

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To generate new ideas, combine ideas from different fields

• The creative person wants to be a know-it-all. He wants to know about all kinds of things: ancient history, nineteenth-century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, flower arranging, and hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later or six months, or six years down the road. But he has faith that it will happen. Carl Ally
• There is only one way in which a person acquires a new idea: by the combination or association of two or more ideas he already has into a new juxtaposition in such a manner as to discover a relationship among them of which he was not previously aware.  Francis A. Cartier

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To generate ideas, create connections

• An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor. Robert Frost
• Ideas come from everything. Alfred Hitchcock
• Chance favors the connected mind. Steven Johnson

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To generate new ideas, feed your mind with new inputs

• The mind needs stimulation. Your sensory input gets stored in memory. By giving your mind fresh inputs each day, your memories get triggered and combined with the new input. Sometimes you will get ideas or gain new perspectives. Charles Cave
• Where do ideas come from? Ideas come from other ideas. Ira Glass

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To generate new ideas, break rules and question assumptions

• Rules are a great way to get ideas. All you have to do is break them. Jack Foster
• A useful technique of generating ideas is to list the assumptions of the problem, and then explore what happens as you drop each of these assumptions individually or in combination. Charles Cave
• Questions,  Assumption

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To generate new ideas, ask questions

• A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions. There is something about a well- worded question that often penetrates to the heart of the matter and triggers new ideas and insights. Brian Tracy
• Idea Generators should be aware of a simple universal truth. There are only six questions that one human can ask another: What? Where? When? How? Why? Who?  You may want to draw a mind map of the problem with these six words as nodes on the map. Charles Cave
• Cultivate your imagination. Set aside time each day to ask yourself “what if? questions.  Use the provocative answers you find as stepping stones to new ideas.  Roger von Oech
• Questions are spurs to ideation. Alex Osborn
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To generate new ideas, get away from your desk and relax

• Good ideas and creativity usually do not appear under stress. When you are relaxed and rejuvenated, creative ideas usually come rather naturally. Take a walk on the beach, take a nap, go and play some sport or do whatever it is that relaxes you so that your brain can be more creative when you get back to work. Diann Daniel
• How many of you do your best thinking and get your most creative ideas at work? When we ask people in our groups this question, no one ever raises their hand. Robert
• I often joke with my audiences that I make most of my income on a ski pole. People smile but they get my point. You need to make time for your genius to flow. We get our creative bursts, those idea torrents that take our business and personal lives to the next level, while we are skiing or drinking coffee in a Starbucks or walking in the woods or meditation with a sunrise. Those pursuits are not a waste of time. Creativity comes when you are relaxed, happy and enjoying the moment. And when it comes, it brings ideas that rock your world. Robin Sharma
• No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit. Sir Frederick G. Banting
• Whence and how these come I know not, nor can I force them… When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• It’s no accident that new ideas pop into our heads when we least expect it. In our enthusiasm to be productive, we forget to give our mind/body moments to be “receptive” – that is, open to daydreaming, open to letting our minds wander. Linda Stone
• My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living. Anais Nin
• Ideas abound if I can get out of my everyday environment and travel to a new one. Frances H. McIlvain
• Let your working ideas go for a picnic – sometimes the fresh air and ant bites are just what they need. Many great ideas were bitten a little at the beginning. Terri Guillemets
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To generate new ideas, go walking

• If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk. Raymond Inmon
• Great ideas originate in the muscles. Thomas A. Edison
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To generate new ideas, slow down

• If you’re having difficulty coming up with new ideas, then slow down. For me, slowing down has been a tremendous source of creativity.  It has allowed me to open up — to know that there’s life under the earth and that I have to let it come through me in a new way. Creativity exists in the present moment. You can’t find it anywhere else.  Natalie Goldberg
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To generate new ideas, be funny

• The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible. David Ogilvy
• Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious. Paul Valery
• Humour,  Laughter

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To generate new ideas, be still

• To create you must quiet your mind. You need a quiet mind so that ideas will have a chance of connecting. Eric Maisel
• Whenever an answer, a solution, or a creative idea is needed, stop thinking for a moment by focusing attention on your inner energy field. … When you resume thinking, it will be fresh and creative. Eckhart Tolle
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To generate new ideas, tap into your intuition

• Some ideas are not born of logic and good sense. They are made of clouds and cobwebs. They sprout from nowhere and feed on excitement, sprinkled with adventure juice and the sweet flavor of the forbidden. The psyche moves from the realms of the ordinary and takes a delicate step towards the unknown. We know we shouldn’t and that is exactly why we do. Brigid Lowry
• There is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap. Stephen Hawking
• New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion. Henry David Thoreau
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To generate new ideas, put in conscious effort

• Your most brilliant ideas come in a flash, but the flash comes only after a lot of hard work. Nobody gets a big idea when he is not relaxed, and nobody gets a big idea when he is relaxed all the time. Edward Blakeslee
• Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced. Edward de Bono
• 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. Albert Einstein
• Labor gives birth to ideas. Jim Rohn
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To generate ideas, have face to face discussions with others

• There is a temptation in our networked age to think that ideas can be developed by email and iChat. That is crazy. Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions. You run into someone, you ask what they are doing, you say, ‘Wow’ and soon you are cooking up all sorts of ideas. Steve Jobs
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To generate ideas, observe the world around you

• Never exclude anything – open your eyes for the unknown and uncommon and take your camera to collect these ideas. It may be worthwhile. Petra Voegtle
• But how shall I get ideas? Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind — Act! Orison Swett Marden
• It should not be hard for you to stop sometimes and look into the stains of walls, or ashes of a fire, or clouds, or mud or like places, in which… you may find really marvellous ideas. Leonardo da Vinci
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To generate ideas, allow them to emerge

• New ideas emerge of their own free will if they are allowed to. David Toop
• Ideas are intelligent active things which present themselves to your consciousness for expression. You can only be receptive and express them as they will be expressed. Harvey Dunn
• Ideas are gifts and if you are listening and in a state of awareness you shall find a universe of ideas. Kathleen Arnason
• There’s a feeling of openness; it’s as if nothing is wrong, as if ideas are there, hanging in the air just waiting to be bumped into. Keeley
• Get in touch with yourself. The fountain of creativity begins with the stream of conscious thought flowing inside you. Open the floodgate and creative ideas come rushing out. Nita Leland

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To generate ideas, put the judge in you to sleep

• Each of you has an “artist” and a “judge” within you. The open-minded attitude of the artist typifies the kind of thinking you use in the imaginative phase when you’re generating ideas.  The evaluative outlook of the judge represents the kind of thinking you use in the practical phase when you’re preparing ideas for execution.  I recommend that you avoid bringing in the judge before your artist has had a chance to do her job.  Premature evaluation can prevent conception.  Roger von Oech

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Record your ideas …

• Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste! Les Brown
• Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away. Earl Nightingale
• I write and record ideas everywhere. On flight sickness bags on airplanes. On paper napkins in restaurants. In my journal that follows me much of where I go. Yes, I’m obsessed with creativity. And that’s my encouragement for you too. Robin Sharma
• There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write. William Makepeace Thackeray
• This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action – I will write it out. Hortense Calisher
• Ideas lose themselves as quickly as quail, and one must wing them the minute they rise out of the grass, or they are gone. Thomas F. Kennedy

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… by always carrying a notebook …

• Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever. Will Self
• Don’t forget to carry a notebook to record your ideas during the day. Charles Cave
• Go out and buy yourself a five-cent pencil and a ten-cent notebook and begin to write down some million- dollar ideas for yourself. Bob Grinde
• Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down. Hector Berlioz
• Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them. David Allen
• Always have a pen and paper. Ideas come at the least convenient time. But, when they come, they must be captured while the intensity is there. Bill Lathrop
• I am getting too many ideas in the bathtub and I often forget to bring a pad. Soap bubbles just don’t last! Jerry Waese

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… but also let ideas float in your head a bit first

• I think that perhaps if I had had to slow down the ideas so that I could capture them on paper I might have stifled some of them. J.K. Rowling
• Students think they must write down the idea immediately, but I tell them if it’s a good idea it’ll be in your head in five minutes’ time. Judith Weir
• It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in. Johann Friedrich von Schiller
• Clothe an idea in words and it loses its freedom of movement. Egon Friedell

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Don’t hesitate to steal ideas and build on them

• A person who can create ideas worthy of note is a person who has learned much from others. Konosuke Matsushita
• Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you’re working on. Thomas Alva Edison
• It seems to be one of the paradoxes of creativity that in order to think originally, we must familiarize ourselves with the ideas of others. George Kneller
• Make it a point to keep on the lookout for novel and interesting ideas that others have used effectively. Your idea has only to be original in its adaptation to the problem you are working on.  Roger von Oech
• We are apt to think that our ideas are the creation of our own wisdom but the truth is that they are the result of the experience through outside contact. Konosuke Matsushita
• I get a lot of big ideas, and occasionally I actually come up with one myself. Bauvard
• It doesn’t matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes. Elias Canetti
• The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?  Dale Carnegie
• Never hesitate to steal a good idea. Al Neuharth
• Once I thought ideas were exceptions not the rule. That is not so. Ideas are so plentiful that they ride by on air. You’ve only to reach out and snatch one… Rod Mckeun
• It’s perfectly legitimate to build on the good ideas of others, particularly when you’re still exploring the territory. Sigrid Tidmore
• It’s not where you take things from – it’s where you take them to. Jean-Luc Godard
• Images also help me find and realize ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from them, rather like people who eat from other people’s plates. Francis Bacon
• Plagiarism: Failure to adorn stolen ideas with footnotes, as opposed to scholarship, which repeatedly acknowledges the theft.

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Realise that no idea is really new

• New ideas are one of the most overrated concepts of our time. Most of the important ideas that we live with aren’t new at all. Andrew A. Rooney
• Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas! Ben Jonson
• There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt. Audre Lorde
• It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. Aristotle

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Get ideas from books

• An original idea. That can’t be too hard.  The library must be full of them.  Stephen Fry
• Be conversant with the great ideas. Irwin Greenberg
• Reading plants, nourishes and grows ideas. William V. Dunning

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Treat new ideas with care …

• A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man’s brow. Charles Brower
• Little words hurt big ideas. Howard W. Newton
• Big Ideas are so hard to recognize, so fragile, so easy to kill. Don’t forget that, all of you who don’t have them. John Elliot, Jr.
• Big ideas are little ideas that no-one killed too soon. Seth Godin

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… realising that the best ideas tend to look crazy at first

• An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. Oscar Wilde
• Every really new idea looks crazy at first. Abraham H. Maslow
• If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it. Albert Einstein
• It is easier to tone down a wild idea than to think up a new one. Alex Osborne
• No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time steady eye. Winston Churchill
• The truly creative person is one who can think crazy; such a person knows full well that many of his great ideas will prove to be worthless. Frank Goble
• We all know your idea is crazy. The question is, whether it is crazy enough.  Niels Bohr
• Almost all really new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are just produced. Alfred North Whitehead
• Do something. If it doesn’t work, do something else. No idea is too crazy. Jim Hightower
• It first appeared like a crazy idea. It turned out he had a great idea. Richard Munro
• A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds. Mark Twain
• Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced. Alfred North Whitehead
• A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows. William James
• If you have the same ideas as everybody else but have them one week earlier than everyone else then you will be hailed as a visionary. But if you have them five years earlier you will be named a lunatic. Barry Jones
• Forget what makes sense; pay more attention to what calls to you. Give airtime to the crazy ideas you have; take them seriously. Don’t be too quick to dismiss what to you seems impractical. Susan Biali, M.D.
• Every new idea looks crazy at first. Robert Olson

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Develop your ideas through the power of thought…

• The more an idea is developed the more concise becomes its expression; the more a tree is pruned, the better is the fruit. Alfred Bougeant
• An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself. Charles Dickens
• I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else. Pablo Picasso
• Some have half-baked ideas because their ideals are not heated up enough. Henry S. Haskins
• An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought. Pablo Picasso
• Thinking,  Reflection

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… especially through writing …

• When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time.  Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools.  Michael Leboeuf
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… and drawing

• While a scribble is quick and hasty, a doodle is a bit more relaxed, more like wandering around than dashing about. They grow from within and can be an abundant source of ideas. Richard McDaniel
• Drawing is putting a line round an idea. Henri Matisse
• Drawing helps us become visually familiar with each new idea. Richard McDaniel
• Draw or write for 30 minutes a day – you have no idea how many good ideas you will forget otherwise. Joel Haas
• Leonardo da Vinci‘s technique for getting ideas was to close his eyes, relax totally, and cover a sheet of paper with random lines and scribbles. He would then open his eyes and look for images and patterns, objects, faces, or events in the scribble. Michael Michalko

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Test new ideas

• We like to test things… no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first. Henry Block
• Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice. Sidney J. Harris

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Share your ideas with others

• Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than the one where they sprang up. Oliver Wendal Holmes
• Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats. Howard Aiken
• If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas. George Bernard Shaw
• The best ideas are common property. Seneca
• Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls. Gaston Bachelard
• Here’s what is exciting about sharing ideas with others: if you share a new idea with ten people, they get to hear it once and you get to hear it ten times. Jim Rohn

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Learn how to express and sell your ideas

• In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman. David M. Ogilvy
• You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can’t get them across, your ideas won’t get you anywhere. Lee Iacocca
• The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself. Bernard Baruch
• If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person. Ralph Bunche
• To get your ideas across, use small words, big ideas, and short sentences. John H. Patterson
• Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all. Pericles
• The only people in the whole world who can change things ara those who can sell ideas. Lois Wyse

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Turn your ideas into reality by implementing them …

• Everyone who’s ever taken a shower has an idea. It’s the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference. Nolan Bushnell
• Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something. L. Simpson
• What is creativity? I define creativity as the act of turning new and imaginative ideas into reality. Creativity involves two processes: thinking, then producing. Innovation is the production or implementation of a creative idea. If you have ideas, but don’t act on them, you are imaginative but not creative. Linda Naiman
• Ideas won’t keep; something must be done about them. Alfred North Whitehead
• To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action. Virginia Woolf
• An idea is a curious thing. It will not work unless you do. Jaeger’s Facts
• Take action on your ideas. Procrastination is the mortal enemy of spontaneous brilliance. Dan Zadra
• The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It’s as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer. Nolan Bushnell
• The innovation point is the pivotal moment when talented and motivated people seek the opportunity to act on their ideas and dreams. W. Arthur Porter
• If you have a good idea, use it so that you will not only accomplish something, but so that you can make room for new ones to flow into you. Deng Ming-Dao
• It is by acts and not by ideas that people live. Anatole France
• An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it. Richard Bach
• You have to hatch ideas — and then hitch them. Ray D. Everson
• Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience. Hyman Rickover
• Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings. O. Jackson
• Long is the road from conception to completion. Moliere
• The simple joy of taking an idea into one’s own hands and giving it proper form, that’s exciting. George Nelson
• You have an idea, and then you just put one dumb foot in front of the other and course-correct as you go. Barry Diller
• The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won’t keep. Something must be done about them. Alfred North Whitehead
• An idea can only become a reality once it is broken down into organized, actionable elements. Scott Belsky
• When someone begins a new idea and follows through with it, to the benefit of all around them, it is a beautiful thing. Laury Ravenstein
• Used judiciously, voicing ideas can be a positive force. Sometimes publicly announcing your intention to do something can keep you committed to seeing it through – or face the embarrassment of saying you did nothing about it. Alexander Petti
• The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success. Henry Ward Beecher
• Only the ideas that we really live have any value. Hermann Hesse
• Ideas are useless unless used. The proof of their value is in their implementation. Until then, they are in limbo. Theodore Levitt
• I have more respect for the fellow with a single idea who gets there than for the fellow with a thousand ideas who does nothing. Thomas Edison
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… for it is in the execution of ideas where real reward lies

• Ideas are easy to come by; reduction to practice is an arduous but inspirationally rewarding matter. Buckminster Fuller
• The profit of great ideas comes when you turn them into reality. Tom Hopkins
• A good idea if not acted upon produces terrible psychological pain. But a good idea acted upon brings enormous mental satisfaction. Got a good idea? Then do something about it. Use action to cure fear and gain confidence. Here’s something to remember: Actions feed and strengthen confidence; inaction in all forms feeds fear. To fight fear, act. To increase fear—wait, put off, postpone. David Schwartz

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Even the best ideas have no real value without action

• You can have many great ideas in your head, but what makes the difference is the action. Without action upon an idea, there will be no manifestation, no results, and no reward. Miguel Ruiz
• An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied. Arnold Glasow
• Any powerful idea is absolutely fascinating and absolutely useless until we choose to use it. Richard Bach
• Having the world’s best idea will do you no good unless you act on it. Curtis Grant
• The value of an idea lies in the using of it. Thomas A. Edison
• An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea. Edward de Bono
• Ideas are cheap and abundant; what is of value is the effective placement of those ideas into situations that develop into action. Peter F. Drucker
• Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied. Arnold H. Glasgow
• If you don’t execute your ideas, they die. Roger von Oech
• Ideas without action are worthless. Helen Keller
• But the truth is, it’s not the idea, it’s never the idea, it’s always what you do with it. Neil Gaiman
• Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea. Robert Half
• An idea isn’t worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work. William Feather
• Most ideas are stillborn and need the breath of life injected into them through definite plans of immediate action. The time to nurse an idea is at the time of its birth. Every minute it lives, gives it a better chance of surviving. Napoleon Hill
• Ideas have become far more important to us than action – ideas so cleverly expressed in books by the intellectuals in every field. The more cunning, the more subtle, those ideas are the more we worship them and the books that contain them.  We are those books, we are those ideas, so heavily conditioned are we by them.  We are forever discussing ideas and ideals and dialectically offering opinions.  Every religion has its dogma, its formula, its own scaffold to reach the gods, and when inquiring into the beginning of thought we are questioning the importance of this whole edifice of ideas.  We have separated ideas from action because ideas are always of the past and action is always the present – that is, living is always the present.  We are afraid of living and therefore the past, as ideas, has become so important to us.  Jiddu Krishnamurti
• Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh; an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book. Erich Fromm
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It’s the people who execute their ideas who are to be truly respected

• Genius lies not in thinking of ideas, but in the ability to execute the ideas. Jane McElyea
• Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who implement them are priceless. Mary Kay Ash
• Good ideas are common – what’s uncommon are people who’ll work hard enough to bring them about. Ashleigh Brilliant
• Some people have ideas. A few carry them into the world of action and make them happen.  These are the innovators. Andrew Mercer
• I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing. Thomas Alva Edison

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Here are Roger von Oech’s advice for turning ideas into action

• Map out your plans. What’s your objective?  What are you trying to accomplish?  Can you state it in a sentence or two?  Can you draw a picture of it?  Can you make a map of where you need to go and the things you’ll need to do?  Can you visualise yourself reaching your objective?
• Get rid of excuses. What three factors will make it dificult to for you to reach your objective?  How can you get rid of these excuses?
• What do you have at stake? Have something at stake – survival, self-esteem, money, reputation – so that you’ll be motivated to achieve your goal or make your idea successful.
• Get support. How can you create a support system around you to help you achieve your goal?
• It’s not creative unless it sells. What are three reasons people would want your idea or product?  How can you make your idea more attractive to other people?
• Be courageous. What gives you courage to act on your ideas?  Having a well thought out plan? Encouragement?  Faith in your idea?
• Give yourself a deadline. What tight deadline can you give yourself?
• Fight for it. What resistance do you expect to your idea?  How can you overcome it?  What are you willing to do to put your idea into action?

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Focus on one idea and live it

• 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
• Not the one who has many ideas, but the one who has a single conviction may become a great person. Cotvos
• If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it Thomas Mann
• One of the most important reasons for living is to do something – live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete… Awaken your creative sensitivities! Jack Palance
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Focus on big ideas

• Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas. Darby Bannard
• Believe in something larger than yourself… Get involved in the big ideas of your time. Barbara Bush
• These people who are always briskly doing something and as busy as waltzing mice, they have little, sharp, staccato ideas, such as: “I see where I can make an annual cut of $3.47 in my meat budget.” But they have no slow, big ideas. Brenda Ueland

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Discuss ideas rather than people

• Great people talk about ideas. Small people talk about other people. Tobias S. Gibson
• Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. Eleanor Roosevelt
• Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas. Marie Curie

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Conquer bad ideas with good ideas

• 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. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education. Whitney Griswold
• The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth. William O. Douglas
• Nothing dies harder than a bad idea. Julie Cameron
• The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. Whitney Griswold
• 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

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Ideas can obsess us and make us fall in love with them

• You grow ravenous. You run fevers. You know exhilarations. You can’t sleep at night, because your beast-creature ideas want out and turn you in your bed. It is a grand way to live. Ray Bradbury
• A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night. Marilyn vos Savant
• To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should. Jean Rostand
• The idea does not belong to the soul; it is the soul that belongs to the idea. Charles S. Peirce
• Everyone is in love with their own ideas. Carl Jung

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Ideas can possess us

• The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• An idea accepted as true from any source can be every bit as powerful as hypnosis. Maxwell Maltz

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Ideas can be foolish

• There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are well-dressed fools. Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
• There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them. George Orwell
• The problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most certain of them. Bill Maher
• The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic. L. Mencken
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Ideas can be put to bad use

• When good ideas get put to bad use, it is the fault of the user, not the idea. Darby Bannard

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Good ideas can be diluted, even adulterated

• To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, that is has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all. Murray Kempton
• No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it. Fernando Pessoa

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Words do not always constitute ideas

• When ideas fail, words come in very handy. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words. Henry Wheeler Shaw
• There’s zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas. Susan Cain
• The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure of speech is too great for his income of ideas. Christopher Morley
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• The problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most certain of them. Bill Maher
• That’s the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. Ray Bradbury
• I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn’t like it. Samuel Goldwyn
• Why is it I always get my best ideas while shaving? Albert Einstein
• Right now, it’s only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea. Woody Allen
• Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they’re looking for ideas. Paula Poundstone
• He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met. Abraham Lincoln
• Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil. Bernard M. Baruch
• Education: Forcing abstract ideas into concrete heads.
• Committee: a cul de sac to which ideas are lured and quietly strangled.  Lincoln
• Books are for people who don’t have ideas of their own. Greg Hahn
• People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first. David H Comins
• Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free. Doug Horton
• A new idea is like a child. It’s easier to conceive than to deliver. Ted Koysis
• If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he would make a fortune. Griff Niblack
• Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courageous patience. Hyman G. Rickover
• Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.
• Ideas are like legs: what good are they if you can’t run with them, or spread them? Jarod Kintz
• A half-baked idea is okay as long as it’s in the oven.
• Ideas are like wandering sons. They show up when you least expect them.  Bern Williams
• All the ideas in the universe can be described by words. Therefore, if you simply take all the words and rearrange them randomly enough times, you’re bound to hit upon at least a few great ideas eventually. Sausage donkey swallows flying guillotine, my love assembly line. Jarod Kintz
• Ideas are like fleas: they jump from person to person, but they don’t bite everyone. Stanislaus Levy
• Always think of something new; this helps you forget your last rotten idea. Seth Frankel
• An original idea. That can’t be too hard.  The library must be full of them.  Stephen Fry
• Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas. José Marti
• The lampshade on my head is for my bright ideas. I won’t be able to convey them until Monday, when my curtain gets out of the dry cleaners. Bauvard
• My mind contains many good ideas, but it’s not always easy to squeeze one out. Ashleigh Brilliant
• Language is the means of getting an idea from my brain into yours without surgery. Mark Amidon
• When ideas fail, words come in very handy. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• There are lots of great ideas in my book, but as a cohesive unit, my book is only held together with glue at the spine. Or it would be, if it weren’t an ebook.  Jarod Kintz
• Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words. Henry Wheeler Shaw
• He objected to ideas only when others had them. J.P. Taylor
• His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it. Francis Herbert Bradley
• I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas; I’m frightened of old ones. John Cage
• I stay clear of women with bride ideas.
• If you want me to treat your ideas with more respect, get some better ideas. John Scalzi
• Plagiarism: Failure to adorn stolen ideas with footnotes, as opposed to scholarship, which repeatedly acknowledges the theft.
• She never lets ideas interrupt the easy flow of her conversation. Jean Webster
• The voices in my head may not be real but they have some good ideas!
• We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later. Louis Aragon

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