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  • When I get an idea I start at once building it up in my imagination. I change the construction, make improvements and operate the device in my mind. It is absolutely immaterial to me whether I run my turbine in my thought or test it in my shop. I even note if it is out of balance.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Nikola Tesla Quotes , Running Quotes , Ideas Quotes
  • What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. A convention is a social convenience, as, for example, money ... but it is absurd to take money too seriously, to confuse it with real wealth ... In somewhat the same way, thoughts, ideas and words are "coins" for real things.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Real Quotes , Ideas Quotes
  • In this day of wonders no one will say that a thing or an idea is worthless because it is new. To say it is impossible because it is difficult is again not in consonance with the spirit of the age. Things undreamt of are daily being seen, the impossible is ever becoming possible.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Ideas Quotes , Age Quotes
  • If we try to listen we find it extraordinarily difficult, because we are always projecting our opinions and ideas, our prejudices, our background, our inclinations, our impulses; when they dominate, we hardly listen at all to what is being said...One listens and therefore learns, only in a state of silence, in which this whole background is in abeyance, is quite; then, it seems to me, it is possible to communicate
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Ideas Quotes , Silence Quotes
  • We must remember that the people of all the States are entitled to all the privileges and immunities of the citizen of the several States. We should bear this in mind, and act in such a way as to say nothing insulting or irritating. I would inculcate this idea, so that we may not, like Pharisees, set ourselves up to be better than other people.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Religious Quotes , Ideas Quotes