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The whole idea is to enable you to see mentally the picture at all hours of the day.
Visualization
Claude M. Bristol

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The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.
Creativity
Charles Browder

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Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!
Ideas
Les Brown

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.
Ideas
Ron Brown

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The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.
Opera
Jean De La Bruyere

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Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality the cost becomes prohibitive.
Ideals and Idealism
William F. Buckley

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If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person.
Ideas
Ralph Bunche

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To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is to swear off having ideas.
Mistakes
Leo Burnett

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I think the ideal situation for a family is to be completely incestuous.
Family
William S. Burroughs

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It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts -- you have no idea of the pain it gives one.
Debt
Lord Byron

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This sort of adoration of the real is but a heightening of the beau ideal.
Reality
Lord Byron

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A barrier is of ideas, not of things.
Obstacles
Mark Caine

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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.
Ideas
Mona Caird

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The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.
Exile
Italo Calvino

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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.
Ideas
Julie Cameron

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Money never starts an idea; it is the idea that starts the money.
Money
W. J. Cameron

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That must be wonderful; I have no idea of what it means.
Ambiguity
Albert Camus

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It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.
Ideas
Elias Canetti

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The actual well seen is ideal.
Ideals and Idealism
Thomas Carlyle

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There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools.
Ideas
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort

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However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.
Money
Raymond Chandler

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The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas.
Techniques
Raymond Chandler

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Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you only have one.
Ideas
Alain Chartier

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There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.
Students
Emile-Auguste Chartier

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The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.
Ideals and Idealism
Malcolm De Chazal

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun