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"If you make an error, use it as a stepping stone to a new idea you might not have otherwise discovered."
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"Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness."

"My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with."

"From the port of ideas, not only the most clever ones put out to sea and conquer the world but also the most stupid ones do this!"

"In the jungle of ideas, it is hard to find the true direction! The paths of the wrong ideas often seem to be very alluring!"

"To move the earth like Archimedes, one needs not a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it. There is an easier way: Give a genius a beautiful remote house in a green valley where he can think calmly, and he shall move the earth with ideas!"

"Through your ideas, you open the window of your mind and say a hello to the world."

"I couldn't tell you what I am going to do next 'cause I have no idea, but I am open to anything."

"Unless you close your door to other ideas, you will never remain idealess!"
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"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easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date."


"Everyone has a 'risk muscle.' You keep it in shape by trying new things. If you don't, it atrophies. Make a point of using it at least once a day."


"Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think what else it might be."


"Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process."


"Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach."


"Either you let your life slip away by not doing the things you want to do, or you get up and do them."


"If you make an error, use it as a stepping stone to a new idea you might not have otherwise discovered."
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