"The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas."
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"When the Idea, of any Pleasure strikes your Imagination... let that time be employed in making a just Computation between, the duration of the Pleasure, and that of the Repentance sure to follow it."
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"Wait for the idea. It may not come at first, but you must be patient, never doubting, waiting in faith. It will come."
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"All the most powerful ideas in history go back to archetypes."
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"The purchase of a bargain issue presupposes that the market's current appraisal is wrong, or at least that the buyer's idea of value is more likely to be right than the market's. In this process the investor sets his judgement against that of the market. To some this may seem arrogant or foolhardy."
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"Leaders must be released from the idea that they must be great prayer warriors before they can begin to call others to prayer."
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"I'm terrible on facts. But I always have an idea. If you have an idea, you're well ahead"
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"As we live we all get caught and torn by various traps. Nobody escapes them. Some even live with them. The idea is to realize that a trap is a trap. If you are in one and you don't realize it, then you're finished."
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"We believe that almost all really good investment records will involve relatively little diversification. The basic idea that it was hard to find good investments and that you wanted to be in good investments, and therefore, you'd just find a few of them that you knew a lot about and concentrate on those seemed to me such an obviously good idea. And indeed, it's proven to be an obviously good idea. Yet 98% of the investing world doesn't follow it. That's been good for us."
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"We all are learning, modifying, or destroying ideas all the time. Rapid destruction of your ideas when the time is right is one of the most valuable qualities you can acquire. You must force yourself to consider arguments on the other side."
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"An idea or a fact is not worth more merely because it's more available to you."
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"Having the world's best idea will do you no good unless you act on it."
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"The idea that you encourage companies to take their innovative thinkers and think about the most needy - even beyond the market opportunities - that's something that appropriately ought to be done."
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"I'm an American who loves an America which doesn't exist, which is a land of freedom and free ideas."
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"A belief is an idea around which we close our minds."
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"We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like."
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"Clinging uncritically to traditional ideas and beliefs often serves to obscure or deny real facts of our life history."
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"You have to treat people gently because we're all in a process. What might seem like a good idea to somebody at 21 is probably not going to seem like a good idea at 50, but you don't know that until you get there."
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"The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas."
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"A philistine is a full-grown person whose interests are of a material and commonplace nature, and whose mentality is formed of the stock ideas and conventional ideals of his or her group and time."
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