Quote by Victor Hugo
Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river. - Victor Hugo

Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river. – Victor Hugo

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Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest. – Victor Hugo

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Prometheus is action. Hamlet is hesitation. In Prometheus the obstacle is exterior; in Hamlet it is interior. In Prometheus the will is securely nailed down by nails of brass and cannot get loose; besides, it has by its side two watchers – Victor Hugo

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An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it. – Richard Bach

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My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living. – Anais Nin

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If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas. – George Bernard Shaw

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If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person. – Ralph Bunche

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Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis. – John Dewey

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Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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I have learned to respect ideas, wherever they come from. Often they come from clients. Account executives often have big creative ideas, regardless of what some writers think. – Leo Burnett

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I find I always have to write something on a steamed mirror. – Elaine Dundy

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