"Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously."

Norman Vincent Peale, American Clergyman

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"Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously."

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"The real battlefield is the realm of ideas."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Idea, Truth, Power, Wisdom, Life

"Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

Idea, Truth, Power, Inspirational, Wisdom

"I haven't been out in the marketplace in a while. I'm thinking about going back into it. I've got some things set up over the next couple of months just to go and see. But I have no idea what the specific way to a solution is anymore. It's mysterious to me."

Michael Nesmith, American Musician

Idea, Months, Solution, Thinking

"Shakespeare's idea of the tragic fact is larger than this idea and goes beyond it; but it includes it, and it is worth while to observe the identity of the two in a certain point which is often ignored."

Andrew Coyle Bradley, American Judge

Idea, Fact, Identity, Shakespeare

"I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write."

Ken Thompson, American Scientist

Idea, Open, Unix

"When certain bootleg companies started off and they would take maybe ten per cent of whatever they got and help fuel new bands, which I'm cool with, I think that's a good idea. Most of the record companies are not doing that."

David Coverdale, English Musician

Idea, Help

"I have no idea what the audience makes of me."

Keith Richards, English Musician

Idea,

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

Oprah Winfrey, American Entertainer

Idea, Heaven

"The really good idea is always traceable back quite a long way, often to a not very good idea which sparked off another idea that was only slightly better, which somebody else misunderstood in such a way that they then said something which was really rather interesting."

John Cleese, English Actor

Idea,

"But the whole idea of the transformation... mystery, transformation, and manipulations - those were the things that Marcel was a magician at. That's his magic."

Robert Barnes, English Celebrity

Idea, Magic, Mystery

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"Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination."

Imagination

"It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship."

Time

"One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is."

Experience

"Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them."

People

"Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex."

Thought

"You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched."

Will

"Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have."

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"The real battlefield is the realm of ideas."

"Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness."

"I haven't been out in the marketplace in a while. I'm thinking about going back into it. I've got some things set up over the next couple of months just to go and see. But I have no idea what the specific way to a solution is anymore. It's mysterious to me."

"Shakespeare's idea of the tragic fact is larger than this idea and goes beyond it; but it includes it, and it is worth while to observe the identity of the two in a certain point which is often ignored."

"I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write."

"When certain bootleg companies started off and they would take maybe ten per cent of whatever they got and help fuel new bands, which I'm cool with, I think that's a good idea. Most of the record companies are not doing that."

"I have no idea what the audience makes of me."

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

"The really good idea is always traceable back quite a long way, often to a not very good idea which sparked off another idea that was only slightly better, which somebody else misunderstood in such a way that they then said something which was really rather interesting."

"But the whole idea of the transformation... mystery, transformation, and manipulations - those were the things that Marcel was a magician at. That's his magic."

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"Imagination is the true magic carpet."

"Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe."

"Change yourself and your work will seem different."

"Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination."

"It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship."

"One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is."

"Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them."

"Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex."

"You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched."

"Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have."