"The best experiences and the biggest ideas don't fit into a category. They change it. They don't get filed away, they transform us."
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"When your ideas about yourself change, so does your experience."
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"We're all the sons of God, or children of the Is, or ideas of the Mind, or however else you want to say it."
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"In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea."
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"Of course I'm a fake. We're all fakes on this whole world, pretending to be something we're not. We are not just bodies walking around, not just atoms, molecules. We are unkillable, undestroyable ideas of the IS, no matter how much we believe otherwise."
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"Silly ideas, worth the admission price in smiles, but they're true. Is high-energy physics interesting because it's true or because it's crazy?"
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"When you put your ideas in the world, then, and only then, do you know if they're real."
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"All good ideas are terrible... Until people realize they are obvious. If you're not willing to live through the terrible stage, you'll never get to the obvious part."
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"I don't think there's a shortage of remarkable ideas. I think your business has plenty of great opportunities to do great things. Nope, what's missing isn't the ideas. It's the will to execute them."
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"Here's the fascinating part, call it the golden shoulder: We have no idea in advance who the great contributors are going to be. We know that there's a huge cohort of people struggling outside the boundaries of the curated, selected few, but we don't know who they are."
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"If you're in the idea business, it doesn't matter where you're from. It matters if we care about the change you're making."
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"Sharing an idea you care about is a generous way to change your world for the better."
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"The answer to the question "where do good ideas come from" is always the same, the come from bad ideas. If you come up with 20 bad ideas you get one good one."
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"The best experiences and the biggest ideas don't fit into a category. They change it."
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"The resistance is the voice in your head telling you to use bullets in your PowerPoint slides...It’s the voice that tells you to leave controversial ideas out of the paper you’re writing, because the teacher won’t like them. The resistance pushes relentlessly for you to fit in."
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"Give up control and give it away ... The more you give your idea away, the more your company is going to be worth."
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"The danger of the Web is that you can go from idea to public announcement in under ten minutes."
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"Seizing new ground, making connections between people or ideas, working without a map-these are works of art, and if you do them, you are an artist, regardless of whether you wear a smock, use a computer, or work with others all day long."
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"If your project or organization depends on knowing things that other people don't know (but could find out if they wanted to), your days are probably numbered. Ask a travel agent The alternative, while difficult, is obvious. Provide enough non-commodity service and customization that it doesn't matter if the ideas spread. In fact, it will help you when they do."
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"All the creativity books in the world aren’t going to help you if you’re unwilling to have lousy, lame, and even dangerously bad ideas."
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