"The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm."

Ideas, Enthusiasm, Accomplishments, Man

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"The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm."

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"It is easy to destroy a book, but an idea once implanted has roots no man can utterly destroy."

Louis L'Amour, American Author

Ideas, Idea, Knowledge, Persistence, Thought

"I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right."

Henry Bessemer, English Scientist

Ideas, Belief, Control, Mind

"Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free."

Douglas Horton, American Clergyman

Ideas,

"Good acting is about being as natural and calm as possible. These days producers have such definite ideas that you have to be prepared to do whatever they ask."

Bryn Terfel, Welsh Musician

Ideas, Acting, Being

"You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value."

Hermann Hesse, German Novelist

Ideas, Idea, Life, Living, Values

"Ideas are one thing and what happens is another."

John Cage, American Composer

Ideas,

"If Pakistan has any ideas of annexing any part of our territories by force, she should think afresh. I want to state categorically that force will be met with force and aggression against us will never be allowed to succeed."

Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indian Leader

Ideas, Aggression, Force, State

"Ideas that don't even exist have the power to destroy the world."

Lionel Suggs, American Writer

Ideas, Idea, Power, Destruction, Imagination

"A major fault, for example, is the fact that, along with the materialist principle, Darwin introduced into his theory of evolution reactionary Malthusian ideas."

Trofim Lysenko, Russian Celebrity

Ideas, Evolution, Example, Fact

"Ray is very secretive about his ideas - why not, the times that the Kinks have been ripped off, especially in the early years, it makes you a little bit cautious about telling anybody what you're doing. And that's understandable."

Dave Davies, British Musician

Ideas, Years

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"Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself."

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"Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops."

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"Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops."

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"If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good."

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"Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances - but to everyone all the time."

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"Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new."

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"If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid."

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"All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work."

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