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Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Great, Small, Minds

We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.
Max de Pree

Beautiful, May, Give

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
Albert Einstein

Poetry, Logical, Pure

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.
Albert Einstein

Science, Simple, May

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.
Albert Einstein

Great, Keep, Ask

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
Thomas Jefferson

Sinful, Tyrannical, Compel

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.
Mark Twain

Marriage, Before, Union

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
Thomas Jefferson

Nothing, Wrong, False

College isn't the place to go for ideas.
Helen Keller

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
John F. Kennedy

Truth, Judge, Afraid

Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.
Coco Chanel

Live, Fashion, Sky

You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.
Warren Buffett

Life, Long, Idea

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Time, Mind, Two

Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas.
John F. Kennedy

Long, Before, Place

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

God, Premature, Evermore

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
Aristotle

Same, Once, Times

In college I never realized the opportunities available to a pro athlete. I've been given the chance to meet all kinds of people, to travel and expand my financial capabilities, to get ideas and learn about life, to create a world apart from basketball.
Michael Jordan

Life, Travel, Basketball

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else's ideas about you, but what's important is how you feel about yourself - for survival and living day to day with what comes up.
Marilyn Monroe

Yourself, Important, Living

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
Napoleon Hill

Reality, Thought, Beginning

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.
Jim Rohn

Good, Sometimes, Door

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.
Henry Ford

Eyes, Energy, Stars

The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.
Thomas Sowell

Work, Political, Find

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.
Joseph Stalin

Powerful, Why, Guns

Labor gives birth to ideas.
Jim Rohn

Labor, Birth, Gives

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The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.
John Maynard Keynes

Old, Lies, Difficulty

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.
Steve Jobs

Company, Turn, Continue

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.
Bill Gates

Afraid, Quite, Top

In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved.
Rupert Murdoch

Hope, Others, Minds

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Real, Everything, Enthusiasm

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
Fran Lebowitz

Great, Small, Talk

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