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Ignite the boldest of your dreams!
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Quotes: Soulfully Inspiring and Uplifting You Daily by Utilizing the Power of Positive Quotes
May you find the strength and resolve today, to allow a deeper sense of healing to begin.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway to Healing After Loss: Soulfully Inspiring You Whilst Mourning Loss and Working Through Grief
Let the pain & suffering of all that appears to be lost, be soothed, healed & comforted.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway to Healing After Loss: Soulfully Inspiring You Whilst Mourning Loss and Working Through Grief
If you’re struggling to fit me into a box……. Then build a bigger box!
— Serina Hartwell
May all you affirm and believe be given the opportunity to manifest - day by day.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Affirmations: Soulfully Affirming Your Life's True Purpose & Destiny With the Power of Affirmations
Life’s Answers, will always come to You in unexpected ways; different shapes & guises.
— Eleesha, The Soul Whisperer : A Trilogy of Soul Awakening, Revelations & Insights
It is within your loving and welcoming arms that a new generation will arrive & be greeted.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Motherhood: Soulfully Empowering Your Life's Journey & Purpose As a Mother Through Positive Inspiration
Motherhood unwittingly molds us into all we are now, or are - destined to be.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Motherhood: Soulfully Empowering Your Life's Journey & Purpose As a Mother Through Positive Inspiration
Let the voices of all mothers be heard, as we come to honor the gift of Motherhood.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Motherhood: Soulfully Empowering Your Life's Journey & Purpose As a Mother Through Positive Inspiration
Your inner understanding of Love - can be extended beyond all you have ever known, before.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Love: Soulfully Inspiring You to Uncover the Essence of True Love That Exists, Within
May you uncover the wisdom that summons the answers – to all that you seek.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Quotes: Soulfully Inspiring and Uplifting You Daily by Utilizing the Power of Positive Quotes
Nurture the Power & Wisdom of your Own Inner Strengths, with Good Intent.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Empowerment:  Soulfully Empowering You to Overcome Life's Challenges & to Achieve Your Goals
May my children follow their own intuition to discover true empowerment - in the answers they seek.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway to Fatherhood: Soulfully Empowering Your Life's Journey & Purpose as a Father Through Positive Inspiration
May you become empowered from within – to make your way boldly, along life's unique journey.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Empowerment:  Soulfully Empowering You to Overcome Life's Challenges & to Achieve Your Goals
Fearlessly use the power of your will & determination to go forth in life, strengthened.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Quotes: Soulfully Inspiring and Uplifting You Daily by Utilizing the Power of Positive Quotes
Allow love, to illuminate the unknown pathways that are destined - to be traveled.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Love: Soulfully Inspiring You to Uncover the Essence of True Love That Exists, Within
In expression of Fatherhood I evolve to become - all I was destined, to be.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway to Fatherhood: Soulfully Empowering Your Life's Journey & Purpose as a Father Through Positive Inspiration
When you walk in the company of your courage, nothing & no one - can stand in your way.
— Eleesha, The Soul Whisperer : A Trilogy of Soul Awakening, Revelations & Insights
Affirm your life's destiny & purpose to ensure - both are graciously fulfilled.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Affirmations: Soulfully Affirming Your Life's True Purpose & Destiny With the Power of Affirmations
Embrace all you do not just want - but, all you truly deserve.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Inspiration: Soulfully Inspiring You to Attain Your Goals by Utilizing the Power of Inspiration
May you enter into a new phase in your life. One that affirms your life's purpose.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Affirmations: Soulfully Affirming Your Life's True Purpose & Destiny With the Power of Affirmations
Allow yourself to be freed from the constraints of what the mind knows, believes & thinks.
— Eleesha
May you find solace & be comforted by love’s inner warmth, and glow.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Love: Soulfully Inspiring You to Uncover the Essence of True Love That Exists, Within
Motherhood furnishes us with, not just giving life — but, partaking of life’s learning.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Motherhood: Soulfully Empowering Your Life's Journey & Purpose As a Mother Through Positive Inspiration
Every person in the AA program who's successful is living proof that he or she does have power over addictive drugs and alcohol- the power to stop.
— Chris Prentiss, The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure
Show up. Pay attention. Tell the truth. Let go.
— Sue Morter, Empowering Transformations for Women
AA purports to be open to anyone, as it is stated in Tradition Tree, "The only requirement for AA membership is a desire to stop drinking," but it isn't open to everyone. It's open only to those who are willing to publicly declare themselves to be alcoholics or addicts and who are willing to give up their inherent right of independence by declaring themselves powerless over addictive drugs and alcohol, as stated in Step One, "We admitted we are powerless over alcohol- that our lives had become unmanageable.
— Chris Prentiss, The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure
P26 - Only power that springs from the weakness of the oppressed will be sufficiently strong to free both.
— Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Empowerment is never about blame
—  it is about taking personal responsibility.
On this day of love, embrace the freedom, to not just give love - but to receive it, too.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Love: Soulfully Inspiring You to Uncover the Essence of True Love That Exists, Within
Let us acknowledge the magnitude of Motherhood, by simply honoring all mothers— past & present.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Motherhood: Soulfully Empowering Your Life's Journey & Purpose As a Mother Through Positive Inspiration
May the pathways that have taken you along the road to loss, guide you along the road to healing.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway to Healing After Loss: Soulfully Inspiring You Whilst Mourning Loss and Working Through Grief
Become Empowered, not just in Mind and Body - but in Spirit, too.
— Eleesha, The Soul Whisperer : A Trilogy of Soul Awakening, Revelations & Insights
Let strength and wisdom carry you forward beyond the limited horizons — you may have once envisioned.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Quotes: Soulfully Inspiring and Uplifting You Daily by Utilizing the Power of Positive Quotes
Your loss, serves as a stark reminder that, although I feel so alone—I am not alone.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway to Healing After Loss: Soulfully Inspiring You Whilst Mourning Loss and Working Through Grief
As a Father, I willingly nurture & protect the Soul's of all those - I love.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway to Fatherhood: Soulfully Empowering Your Life's Journey & Purpose as a Father Through Positive Inspiration
A rich man is most coveted but I'd be damned if I be a poor woman
— Uneñ Ameji
The Mind may relish the companionship of bloated self-pride - but the Soul, will not.
— Eleesha, The Soul Whisperer : A Trilogy of Soul Awakening, Revelations & Insights
Let your doubts & fears melt away, as you fulfill your life's destiny & goals.
— Eleesha, The Soul Whisperer : A Trilogy of Soul Awakening, Revelations & Insights
You are no longer constrained by the mind’s limitations-but, freed by the Soul’s inner guidance.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Quotes: Soulfully Inspiring and Uplifting You Daily by Utilizing the Power of Positive Quotes
Soulfully partake of life, not how you envisage – but, in a manner that was ordained.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Affirmations: Soulfully Affirming Your Life's True Purpose & Destiny With the Power of Affirmations
When I am encouraged, I never see obstacles in my way, only exciting challenges.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Love: Soulfully Inspiring You to Uncover the Essence of True Love That Exists, Within
Let strength & wisdom carry you forward beyond the limited horizons — you may have once envisioned.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway to Quotes: Soulfully Inspiring and Uplifting You Daily by Utilizing the Power of Positive Quotes
Do not just envisage your own hopes, dreams — but, have the courage to strive toward them.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Empowerment:  Soulfully Empowering You to Overcome Life's Challenges & to Achieve Your Goals
Embrace the notion of venturing beyond your own limits.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway to Quotes: Soulfully Inspiring and Uplifting You Daily by Utilizing the Power of Positive Quotes
Never fear Love's absence in your life, because it already exists within you, in great abundance.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Love: Soulfully Inspiring You to Uncover the Essence of True Love That Exists, Within
These words are not just destined to be shared with the mind - but, the Soul.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Affirmations: Soulfully Affirming Your Life's True Purpose & Destiny With the Power of Affirmations
Summon the strength of your capabilities —not just housed in the mind - but, empowered within the Soul.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Empowerment:  Soulfully Empowering You to Overcome Life's Challenges & to Achieve Your Goals
Journey freely along your chosen path, in a manner of your own choosing.
— Eleesha, The Soulful Pathway To Inspiration: Soulfully Inspiring You to Attain Your Goals by Utilizing the Power of Inspiration
I lived through this horror, and no one can tell me I have to stay quiet."I have been silenced long enough, and I will not allow that family to silence me again. I will continue to speak out and make sure my voice is heard.
— Erin Merryn, Living for Today: From Incest and Molestation to Fearlessness and Forgiveness
As women in today's society, we are encouraged to compare ourselves to other women when what we need to do is focus on our own strengths, our own capabilities, our own beauty.
— Cameron Díaz
A tear slipped from eye, as I stood helpless beside Kiran. “They have done nothing wrong, except fight for the freedom you have stolen from them, from all of us!” I shouted back, unable to stay silent when my friends stood at his mercy.“I give you freedom, the freedom to live your life as you please,” Lucan challenged, tilting his chin with pride and sincerity. “I ask nothing of you, except for your loyalty. I am the king, it is the least of what I deserve,” Lucan turned to address the kingdom, his argument ringing through the air.“Then why is it only your bloodline that is allowed immortality?” I argued, taking a step forward. “Why do the rest of our people suffer from the separation of races? Why are the Shape-shifters exiled by penalty of death? What have they done? What is their crime? Are you afraid to share true immortality? Are you so scared of a people that realize they don’t need a king?” I turned to face the crowd too, hoping to empower them with my words.
— Rachel Higginson, Endless Magic
Empowerment is the intentional absence of negativity.
— Stephanie Lennox, The Authorship Program
Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things
— Biz Stone, Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind
Claim all that is good and powerful in life and make it your own!
— Jan Porter, Sacred Space, body mind soul after sexual abuse
Always stand proud in who you are,just as you are,because you have more of a positive impact in the world and the cosmos than you could ever imagine!
— Jan Porter, Sacred Space, body mind soul after sexual abuse
Take what is good from the pastand carve a new path.
— Jan Porter, Sacred Space, body mind soul after sexual abuse
Always allow your childlike wonder, joy, gratitude, love and laughter to serve as your own soul's tool kit for life's most difficult challenges.
— Jan Porter, Sacred Space, body mind soul after sexual abuse
Believe in yourself and great things will happen.
— Sheila Renee Parker
Diversity is wisdom.
— Sheila Renee Parker
Rights and empowerment are interconnected: unless a substantial number of women in a community come to believe that they have rights and demand to exercise them, right remains an abstraction.
— Mahnaz Afkhami, Faith and Freedom: Women's Human Rights in the Muslim World
Why aren’t you asking a hundred other guys why they don’t write strong women characters? I believe that what I’m doing should not be remarked upon, let alone honoured… Because equality is not a concept. It’s not something we should be striving for. It’s a necessity. Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women. And the misogyny that is in every culture is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of balance, and that imbalance is sucking something out of the soul of every man and woman who is confronted with it. We need equality. Kinda now. 'So, why do you write these strong female characters?' Because you’re still asking me that ques
— Joss Whedon
Cause' baby you're a firework!
— Katy Perry, Firework
Leadership is communicating to people their worth and potential so clearly that they are inspired to see it in themselves.
— L. David Marquet, Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders
I think it is important to recognize one’s power, one’s capacities, and one’s dreams. We were actually talking about this in the last men’s group we had. We were talking about these dreams they had as kids and how they just disappeared. They just seemed like they couldn’t even be followed anymore. So for me that’s a loss of power. That’s a loss of their power; their own belief that they control their world. But they need to understand that their actions matter." - Chris
— Robert Uttaro, To the Survivors: One Man's Journey as a Rape Crisis Counselor with True Stories of Sexual Violence
[T]he full and complete development of a country, the welfare of the world and the cause of peace require the maximum participation of women on equal terms with men in all fi
— United Nations
We don't have to accept the things we might change.
— Kate Elliott, Cold Steel
Information is power. Information empowers. Information is powerless if not applied.
— Saji Ijiyemi
The history of the world begins with a seed. The seed is the kernel of what you are, but it is also the promise of what you can become.
— Kate Elliott, Cold Steel
I believe the people who are most successful are those committed to bringing out the best in other people through awakening & empowerment.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
People who violate your boundaries are thieves. They steal time that doesn’t belong to them.
— Elizabeth Grace Saunders, The 3 Secrets to Effective Time Investment: Achieve More Success with Less Stress: Foreword by Cal Newport, Author of So Good They Can't Ignore You
An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls — even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls — without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison 
— Pearl S. Buck
The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged human beings.
— Nicholas D. Kristof, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
Never limit yourself to what you can't do, but to what you have the power to do with what you have.
— Nadège Richards
Most powerful is he who has himself in his power.
— Seneca
In short, superheroes balance the forces of light and dark, rage and serenity, and the sacred and the profane within themselves and from it forge an identity that is powerful and purposeful.
— Deepak Chopra, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Superheroes: Harnessing Our Power to Change the World
Read to lead in order to succeed.
— Habeeb Akande
He that would govern others first should be master of himself.
— Philip Massinger
Good fortune is created/written/made.
— Erica Goros
Danielle had never started a business. But if others can do it, so can I.
— Jan Moran, Scent of Triumph
Don’t just hope the big idea is going to come, make it happen
— Simon Dunn
It doesn't matter if you're born in a duck yard, so long as you are hatched from a swan's egg!
— Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling
To those of us who often procrastinate on the decision we feel intimidated by lack of education or any area of weakness. I relieve you with this statement: It is not how much you know that arms you with the tools of great decision making, but rather how much you ask. Ask questions.
— T.D. Jakes, Making Great Decisions Reflections: For A Life Without Limits
There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.
— Martha Graham
The role of leaders is not to get other people to follow them but to empower others to lead.
— Bill George, True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership
Think of yourself as an athlete. I guarantee you it will change the way you walk, the way you work, and the decisions you make about leadership, teamwork, and success.
— Mariah Burton Nelson, We Are All Athletes
Stand in Your Power: When a woman stands in her power and speaks her truth from the heart, it brings balance into the Universe and the opportunity to connect fully with Divine source
— Teresa Proctor, The Radiant Key to Understanding, Healing with Mary Magdalene Book One: Kenosis for Connection
Everyday do one thing to move you in the direction of your dreams.
— Carolyn  Edwards
If only you knew who you really were you would be fearless and love yourself with a grand passion! You are a unique shard of God, the Universe, the whole or whatever label you would like to call it. No one can take your place and without you endless synchronicity and evolution would not happen. You are so powerful that just by walking down the street you can change someone's life forever.
— Michele Knight
Everything you want in life is just one step away
—  all you have to do is decide in which direction to step.
You already have everything to be the best you can be inside of you. What are you waiting for to use it?
— Bruno LoGreco
Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.
— Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass
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
Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.
— Sue Grafton
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
— Victor Hugo
If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.
— Steve Jobs
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
There is something at the bottom of every new human thought, every thought of genius, or even every earnest thought that springs up in any brain, which can never be communicated to others, even if one were to write volumes about it and were explaining one's idea for thirty-five years; there's something left which cannot be induced to emerge from your brain, and remains with you forever; and with it you will die, without communicating to anyone perhaps the most important of your ideas.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot
Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
— Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof.
— Alan Moore, V for Vendetta
I have tried to be a man of letters in love with ideas in order to be a wiser and more loving person, hoping to leave the world just a little better than I found it.
— Cornel West, The Cornel West Reader
The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually slaves of some defunct economist.
— John Maynard Keynes
The only people who can ever put ideas into context are people who don't care; the unbiased and apathetic are usually the wisest dudes in the room. If you want to totally misunderstand why something is supposedly important, find the biggest fan of that particular thing and ask him for an explanation. He will tell you everything that doesn't matter to anyone who isn't him. He will describe paradoxical details and share deeply personal anecdotes, and it will all be autobiography; he will simply be explaining who he is by discussing something completely unrelated to his life.
— Chuck Klosterman
Chance favors the connected mind.
— Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a meaning to an infinite number of objects. The world comes to a stop, but also lights up.
— Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
For an idea that does not first seem insane, there is no hope.
— Albert Einstein
There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn and they make new and curious combinations. We keep on turning and making new combinations indefinitely
—  but they are the same old pieces of colored glass that have been in use through all the ages.
But the truth is, it's not the idea, it's never the idea, it's always what you do wit
— Neil Gaiman
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, Guitar Highway Rose
We end up stumbling our way through the forest, never seeing all the unexpected and wonderful possibilities and potentials because we're looking for the idea of a tree, instead of appreciating the actual trees in front of us.
— Charles de Lint, Tapping the Dream Tree
I wonder where you got that idea from? I mean, the idea that it's feeble to change your mind once it's made up. That's a wrong idea, you know. Make up your mind about things, by all means - but if something happens to show that you are wrong, then it is feeble not to change your mind, Elizabeth. Only the strongest people have the pluck to change their minds, and say so, if they see they have been wrong in their ideas.
— Enid Blyton, The Naughtiest Girl in the School
I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.
— Elizabeth Peters, The Hippopotamus Pool
Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.
— Neil Gaiman, American Gods
Ideas stand in the corner and laugh while we fight over them.
— Marty Rubin
...ideas are definitely unstable, they not only CAN be misused, they invite misuse--and the better the idea the more volatile it is. That's because only the better ideas turn into dogma, and it is this process whereby a fresh, stimulating, humanly helpful idea is changed into robot dogma that is deadly. In terms of hazardous vectors released, the transformation of ideas into dogma rivals the transformation of hydrogen into helium, uranium into lead, or innocence into corruption. And it is nearly as relentless.The problem starts at the secondary level, not with the originator or developer of the idea but with the people who are attracted by it, who adopt it, who cling to it until their last nail breaks, and who invariably lack the overview, flexibility, imagination, and most importantly, sense of humor, to maintain it in the spirit in which it was hatched. Ideas are made by masters, dogma by disciples, and the Buddha is always killed on the road.There is a particularly unattractive and discouragingly common affliction called tunnel vision, which, for all the misery it causes, ought to top the job list at the World Health Organization. Tunnel vision is a disease in which perception is restricted by ignorance and distorted by vested interest. Tunnel vision is caused by an optic fungus that multiplies when the brain is less energetic than the ego. It is complicated by exposure to politics. When a good idea is run through the filters and compressors of ordinary tunnel vision, it not only comes out reduced in scale and value but in its new dogmatic configuration produces effects the opposite of those for which it originally was intended.That is how the loving ideas of Jesus Christ became the sinister cliches of Christianity. That is why virtually every revolution in history has failed: the oppressed, as soon as they seize power, turn into the oppressors, resorting to totalitarian tactics to "protect the revolution." That is why minorities seeking the abolition of prejudice become intolerant, minorities seeking peace become militant, minorities seeking equality become self-righteous, and minorities seeking liberation become hostile (a tight asshole being the first symptom of self-repression).
— Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker
Do not get obsolete like an old technology, keep innovating yourself.
— Sukant Ratnakar, Open the Windows
Where two principles really do meet which cannot be reconciled with one another, then each man declares the other a fool and a heretic
— Ludwig Wittgenstein, On Certainty
The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.
— George Bernard Shaw
The dangerous man is the one who has only one idea, because then he'll fight and die fo
— Francis Crick
Ideas are powerful things; we should take more care with them. I know there are some who would disagree - those who think ideas are like food they can taste and spit out if they don't like it. But ideas are stronger than that. You can get a taste of an idea inside you, and the next thing you know, it won't leave. Until you do something about it.
— Rene Denfeld, The Enchanted
The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.
— Tommy Smothers
I do my precalc homework, and then when I'm done I actually sit with the textbook for like three hours and try to understand what I just did. That's the kind of weekend it is--the kind where you have so much time you go past the answers and start looking into the ideas.
— John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
Once an idea is out and about, it can't be called back, silenced or erased. You can't contain it, any more than you could put the head of a dandelion back together after the wind has scattered its seeds.
— P.W. Catanese, Happenstance Found
Rizal learned the right ideas at the wrong time, and for this he was shot.
— Ambeth R. Ocampo, Rizal Without the Overcoat
They talk about human rights until the rights include things they personally do not like as alternatives. There needs to be Frank discussions. And Shirley can join too because the pun works. The ideas of human beings of all demeanor and venues are at stake here.
— Leviak B. Kelly, Religion: The Ultimate STD: Living a Spiritual Life without Dogmatics or Cultural Destruction
When an idea takes hold, nothing can stop it!
— Stephen Richards
Sometimes, even the very best course of action fails.
— Bernard Beckett, Genesis
An idea is something you have
—  an ideology is something that has you
Ideas are fruits of your thinking. But they've got to be harnessed and put to work to have value.Each year an oak tree produces enough acorns to populate a good-size forest. Yet from these bushels of seeds perhaps only one or two acorns will become a tree. The Squirrels destroy most of them, and the hard ground beneath the tree doesn't give the few remaining seeds much chance for a start. So it is with ideas. Very few bear fruit. Ideas are highly perishable. If we're not on guard, the squirrels (negative-thinking people) will destroy most of them. Ideas require special handling from the time they are born until they're transformed into practical ways for doing things better. 
— David J. Schwartz
I had a lot of other ideas, now and then, but every time I took a second look at one, it got sick and died.
— H. Beam Piper, Four Day Planet
Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.
— Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
Good ideas may not want to be free, but they do want to connect, fuse, recombine. They want to reinvent themselves by crossing conceptual borders. They want to complete each other as much as they want to compete
— Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
(In reply to the question, 'Would you like some suggestions for a plot for your next book?')There are three problems with getting plot suggestions from other people. The first is that ideas are the easy part of writing; finding the time and energy to get them down on paper is the hard part. I have plenty of ideas already. Which brings me to the second problem: the ideas that excite you, the ones you think would make a terrific book, are not necessarily the same ideas that excite me. And if a writer isn't excited about an idea, she generally doesn't turn out a terrific book, even if the idea is terrific. And the third problem with my using your suggestions is that, theoretically, you could sue me if I did, and that tends to make publishers nervous, which makes it hard to sell a book. So thank you, but no.
— Patricia C. Wrede
Someday, men will visit ideas instead of places.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
The last thing she wanted was to see her friend getting ideas in her head. There was such a lot of room in there for them to bounce around and do damage.
— Terry Pratchett, Unseen Academicals
Every day thousands of people bury good ideas because they are afraid to act on them.And afterwards, the ghosts of these ideas come back to haunt them.
— David J. Schwartz
Jesus--if Kilgore Trout could only write!" Rosewater exclaimed. He had a point: Kilgore Trout's unpopularity was deserved. His prose was frightful. Only his ideas were good.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five
The print does not always have the same shape as the body that impressed it, and it doesn't always derive from the pressure of a body. At times it reproduces the impression a body has left in our mind: it is the print of an idea.
— Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
Ideas and their creators run the world…one’s place in the world is due partially to the ideas that a culture has forced on one and/or the ideas that a person “freely” accepts and uses.
— Haki R. Madhubuti
For at the heart of the uniform, reasoning is shaky and elusive: a mind in search of ideas should first stock up on appearances.
— Francis Ponge
Babbage had most of this system sketched out by 1837, but the first true computer to use this programmable architecture didn’t appear for more than a hundred years.
— Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
There are two kinds of great power which can shake the earth: Mega earthquakes and big ideas!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
What moves men of genius, or rather, what inspires their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is not enough.
— Edouard Delacroix
It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that are served up to us and at the same time a great openness to new ideas. Obviously those two modes of thought are in some tension. But if you are able to exercise only one of these modes, whichever one it is, you’re in deep trouble.If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you. You never learn anything new. You become a crotchety old person convinced that nonsense is ruling the world. (There is, of course, much data to support you.) But every now and then, maybe once in a hundred cases, a new idea turns out to be on the mark, valid and wonderful. If you are too much in the habit of being skeptical about everything, you are going to miss or resent it, and either way you will be standing in the way of understanding and progress.On the other hand, if you are open to the point of gullibility and have not an ounce of skeptical sense in you, then you cannot distinguish the useful as from the worthless ones.
— Carl Sagan
Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.
— John Locke
Before it was a Bomb, the Bomb was an Idea. Superman, however, was a Faster, Stronger, Better Idea.
— Grant Morrison, Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human
Anyone can produce a new fact
—  the thing is to produce a new idea.
Information can be harmful when you're not ready for it. ['The Murder Room: The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes']
— Richard Walter
What a revolution in her ideas!
— Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
Ideas can come from anywhere and at any time. The problem with making mental notes is that the ink fades very rapidly.
— Rolf Smith
Like a necktie or a bouquet of flowers, an idea was best if one did not fuss with it too much
— Galen Beckett, The Master of Heathcrest Hall
Minds with fixed ideas are like granite: They can never be penetrated with soft words and gentle persuasions.
— Mehmet Murat ildan, Galileo Galilei
Open the curtains of your mind, my friend; let the world know who you are! Do not hide your ideas; set them free, let them free! Open the curtains! Feel no fear! If there is truth in your ideas, you become invincible!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
My dear boy, your thinking has no structure, no foundation. You pick up your primary ideas from TV shows. You're like a fart in the bathtub. ['The Murder Room: The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes']
— Richard Walter
People are ready to take the good things into their minds! Give them good and right ideas
—  they will immediately take them as if they are taking beautiful flowers!
On a visit to the space program, President Kennedy asked me about the satellite. I told him that it would be more important than sending a man into space. “Why?” he asked. “Because,” I said, “this satellite will send ideas into space, and ideas last longer than men.
— Newton N. Minnow
I could go on like this forever, but would I ever find a place that was meant for me? Like, for example, where? After lengthy considerations, the only place I could think of was the cockpit of a two-seater Kamikaze torpedo-plane. Of all the dumb ideas. In the first place, all the torpedo-planes were scrapped thirty years ago
— Haruki Murakami, Pinball, 1973
Ideas begin their life as small seeds, so light they may drift through the air like dust motes. If a human is fortunate enough to catch one, when the light is right, it can be planted, just like a seed. With fertile soil, it may grow into a flower or tree, which will re-seed, thus producing a whole field or forest.
— Rahma Krambo, Guardian Cats and the Lost Books of Alexandria
To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that it has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all.
— Murray Kempton
Very often, gleams of light come in a few minutes' sleeplessness, in a secondperhaps; you must fix them. To entrust them to the relaxed brain is like writing on water; there is every chance that on the morrow there will be no slightest trace left of any happening.
— Antonin Sertillanges
Do not covet your ideas. Give away everything you know and more will come back to you.
— Paul Arden, It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want To Be
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In hermetic isolation, all kinds of bizarre and toxic ideas can fester. Sunlight is the best disinfectant, and exposing a bad idea to the critical glare of other minds provides at least a chance that it will wither and die.
— Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
Remember that a burst of enthusiasm usually accompanies a new idea and that the tendency is for you to hurry and tell someone. The mental energy generated by your idea is thereby dissipated in talk rather than in thought. After you talk about it for while, you grow tired. Your idea flows out through the mouth like a weak, shallow creek. The energy that would have developed the idea is released and the idea dies. Don't you talk to anybody about any idea until you have fully developed it!
— William J. Reilly, How to Avoid Work
Yet he refused to be depressed. Instead, Morrie had become a lightning rod of ideas.
— Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
No words are too good for the cutting-room floor, no idea so fine that it cannot be phrased more succinctly.
— Merilyn Simonds, Gutenberg’s Fingerprint: A Book Lover Bridges the Digital Divide
Si l'on n'est plus que mille, eh bien, j'en suis ! Si mêmeIls ne sont plus que cent, je brave encor Sylla ;S'il en demeure dix, je serai le dixième ;Et s'il n'en reste qu'un, je serai celui-là !(If we're just a thousand, then, here I am! Even ifThey're just a hundred, still I face Sylla;If ten still stand, I'll be the tenth;And if there is only one left, I'll be this one!)
— Victor Hugo
[I]t was really only in the generation or two before hers that the idea had started to traverse the spectrum of likelihood in the popular imagination, beginning at unthinkable, progressing to absurd, then going from possible but unlikely to probable and likely, before eventually arriving – round about the time of her birth – at seemingly inevitable.
— Iain M. Banks, The Hydrogen Sonata
An overly complex explanation began with an unsophisticated assumption.
— R.A.Delmonico
Our mind is a wonderful place, people, aspirations, desires & things can walk-in any time, but it takes longer time for ideas to enter, due to the effort & change required to make–up our mind about not only allowing the ideas in our mind but also implementing it.
— ShahenshahHK
Please, sir.” Tisarwat seemed not to have heard either of them. “We can’t leave things the way they are, and I have an idea.” That got the translator’s full attention. She looked up from the game, frowned intently at Tisarwat. “What’s it like? Does it hurt?” Tisarwat only blinked at her. “Sometimes I think I might like to get an idea, but then it occurs to me that it’s exactly the sort of thing Dlique would do.
— Ann Leckie, Ancillary Mercy
I love the caraway seeds in the classic rye bread, but I wonder if the rich dough might not also hold up to other flavors. I jot down some notes. Aniseed. Fennel seed. Orange zest. Golden raisins. Coarse salt? Maybe if Herman doesn't come down when I am working on the dough, I can use a small batch for a little experiment. I'm thinking rolls, not loaves. The kind of rolls you want to smear with cold sweet butter at dinner, or split and toast and spread with cream cheese for breakfast. Savory and sweet. Maybe semolina on the bottom instead of the coarser cornmeal we use for the regular rye loaves.
— Stacey Ballis, Wedding Girl
Your competitor sees innovation as an opportunity not an inconvenience
— Colin Myles, How to Avoid Business Failure: 7 Steps
It's better to develop hobbies and interests than to have ideas about things.
— Marty Rubin
It sounds like a terrible idea,” said Friday. “But that doesn’t mean it won’t work.
— R.A. Spratt, Big Trouble
An idea is a mental spark, a mindset is a mental inferno
— Danny Dover, The Minimalist Mindset
The idea to go West just fell into my lap from the sky. Go west, young man. That’s how the best ideas happen. Just out of nowhere. When you’re not even thinking. Like they’ve been created for you and you just have to reach out and grab them before someone else does.
— Shannon  Mullen, See What Flowers
I wouldn't eat too many of those [half-baked ideas] if I were you. They may look good, but you can get terribly sick of them."-Tock
— Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
When facing society, the man most concerned, the man who is to do the most and contribute the oat, has the least say. It's taken for granted that he has no voice and the reasons he could offer are rejected in advance as prejudiced -- since no speech is ever considered, but only the speaker. It's so much easier to pass judgement on a man than on an idea. Though how in the hell one passes judgement on a man without considering the content of his brain is more than I'll ever understand.
— Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
I failed, he said, I got talking my ideas. It's my greatest failing.
— Walter Van Tilburg Clark, The Ox-Bow Incident
Patriots must have the ideas and the tools so that we can recruit, sow the seeds of doubt, and take the fight to the enemy's safe place.
— Mike Klepper
Only the ideas penetrate and prevail nothing unless one has the knowledge, to bring that into the practical form; otherwise, buying the ideas, shows one's idiocy.
— Ehsan Sehgal
Topica from Afar" discusses many topics and ideas. It brings the far ranging to the here and now and it is meant to enlighten and teach those whose minds are open to endless possibilities.Being written as you read.
— Anthony T. Hincks
Your ideas have legs and just as they run through your head, they could be running through someone else's head and it's just a matter of who gets to the finish line first. Nothing is new under the sun so act on your ideas.
— Sanjo Jendayi
To pursue selfish personal ideas is not wise enough
— Sunday Adelaja
You run out of new ideas? Then you run out of your progression!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Ideas tyrannize the man who has but few.
— Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Don Colacho's Aphorisms
The Brotherhood cannot be wiped out because it is not an organization in the ordinary sense. Nothing holds it together except an idea which is indestructible.
— George Orwell, 1984
Don’t wait for being completely ready for the plans and ideas you may have in mind. Take action now and along the way you will learn and become ready.
— Farshad Asl, The "No Excuses" Mindset: A Life of Purpose, Passion, and Clarity
Build a heterogeneous team to close three gaps in innovation management - idea gaps, collaboration gaps, and implementation gaps
— Pearl  Zhu, Unpuzzling Innovation: Mastering Innovation Management in a Structural Way
The world is better served by syncretic economists and policymakers who can hold multiple ideas in their heads than by ‘one-handed’ economists who promote one big idea regardless of context.
— Dani Rodrik
His optimism blinded her. He was full of plans. "I have an idea!" he said often. She imagined him as a child surrounded by too many brightly colored toys, always being encouraged to carry out "projects", always being told that his mundane ideas were wonderful.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah
Testing trading ideas is like digging for gold or looking for crude oil in deep waters. The more trading ideas you test, the better your chances of finding patterns that can be traded profitably.
— Henrique M. Simões, Trading Course: How to Become a Consistently Winning Trader
The best evidence of unsophisticated ideas is the behavior that follows.
— R.A.Delmonico
Discovery commences with the awareness of anomaly, i.e. with the recognition that nature has somehow violated the paradigm-induced expectations that govern normal science. It then continues with a more or less extended exploration of the area of anomaly. And it closes only when the paradigm theory has been adjusted so that the anomalous has become the expected.
— Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Ideas are like bananas. That bananas grow only in tropical regions doesn't make them any less delicious in Scandinavia.
— Eric Weiner, The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley
One of these days when you are spreading your web of lies and deceit. Your tongue shall turn to ashes in your mouth and after the falling out of your teeth.
— Crystal Evans, The Bunna Man II: Extended Edition
First of all, nothing good ever came from a beanbag chair. Nothing. I am speaking from personal experience.
— Eric Weiner, The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley
The creator of Bambi was secretly writing pornographic novels on the side. This single fact tells you everything you need to know about turn-of-the-century Vienna, and why it was the perfect place for Sigmund Freud and his far-fetched theories about the human psyche.
— Eric Weiner, The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley
Innovative ideas aren't generated in structured, authoritarian environments but in an adaptive culture based on the principles of self-organization and self-discipline.
— Jim Highsmith, Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products
Let the colours of your ideas are red so that all can easily notice them! And what is red? Red is scream, red is power, red is assertion!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
For the record, I blame you for this.”“Me?” huffed Shahin. “This was your idea.”“Well...you should have talked me out of it! You and your brilliant schemes—bah! This particular detail will not go into our report, understand?”“Rest assured, you'll find me silent as the grave on this point.”“And stop using morbid expressions!
— Jennifer McKeithen, Atlantis On the Tides of Destiny
Novel ideas are unsettling, innovative concepts about important matters in human affairs is disruptive of the internal harmony that people prefer. There is a tendency even for the most logical and classically educated people steeped in rational scholastic traditions to assume that if any new hypothesis were correct, a scholar would already written it in a book.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
At the beginning, I thought the best Islamic work was in Spain - the mosque in Cordoba, the Alhambra in Granada. But as I learned more, my ideas shifted. I traveled to Egypt, and to the Middle East many times.I found the most wonderful examples of Islamic work in Cairo, it turns out. I'd visited mosques there before, but I didn't see them with the same eye as I did this time. They truly said something to me about Islamic architecture.
— I.M. Pei
My ideas fuck like rabbits.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
God help those who have the wit to quote themselves, that they may reap the harvest of their ideas.
— sstaas, You, With The Head Down
As Vulcan’s troublesome history reveals, no one gives up on a powerful, or a beautiful, or perhaps simply a familiar and useful conception of the world without utter compulsion – and a real alternative.
— Thomas Levenson, The Hunt for Vulcan: . . . And How Albert Einstein Destroyed a Planet, Discovered Relativity, and Deciphered the Universe
In some respect Journalism is like science, the best ideas were one that survived and strengthened by opposition.
— Ian McEwan, Amsterdam
Hey Jake. I got an idea.''Be gentle with it,' the Doc grinned. 'It's in a strange place.
— Spider Robinson, Callahan's Crosstime Saloon
Brew it local
—  make it global