"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easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date."

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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easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date."

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"As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses."

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

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"The production team's first meeting took place at my house. I had ideas and a color scheme in mind, how I wanted the movie to look, because that has to be a real collaboration."

Debbie Allen, American Actress

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"Every idea, both good and bad will definitely have an opposition. The fact that someone mocks your ideas and dreams does not mean they are bad. Take note!"

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"Acting school was summer camp, and I needed concentration camp. I had so many different ideas swirling between culture and how to tie things together."

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"The poor will look for many excuses why an idea can not be born, but the rich will also look for one excuse why an idea can be born."

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"I've written more songs for this record than I ever have in the past so I'm trying to give it a lot of special attention to be sure my ideas really get translated right."

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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

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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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"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easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date."

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

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"If you don't execute your ideas, they die."

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"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."

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"Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father."

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

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