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How to Get Ideas, 2nd Edition
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How to Get Ideas, 2nd Edition

by Jack Foster, Larry Corby
June 2007
Beginner
214 pages
3h 2m
English
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
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4.Vísualíze Success

The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.

Robert Frost

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.

Lily Tomlin

When I go to the beauty parlor, I always use the emergency entrance. Sometimes I just go for an estimate.

Phyllis Diller

I want you to imagine a steel beam about one foot wide and one hundred feet long.

Let’s say I take that steel beam up to the top of a forty-story office building and lay it across to the top of a forty-story office building on the other side of the street.

Now here’s the deal: If you walk across that beam from one building to the next I’ll give you $100.

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