Motivational Quotes

Ideas

I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

- Samuel Goldwyn

Best Quotes about Ideas

A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

Proust, Marcel

Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Bach, Richard

Great people talk about ideas. Small people talk about other people.

Gibson, Tobias S.

An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.

Einstein, Albert

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I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

John Cage

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A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.

Ernst, Morris L.

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The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting.

Nelson, George

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Not the one who has many ideas, but the one who has a single conviction may become a great person.

Cotvos

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Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.

Dogen

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The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.

Lynch, David

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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

Hugo, Victor

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A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.

Williamson, Marianne

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Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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It first appeared like a crazy idea. It turned out he had a great idea.

Munro, J. Richard

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An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

Frost, Robert

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The idea is in my head to put it down is nothing.

Avery, Milton

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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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Ideas won't work unless you do.

29.

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

Bunche, Ralph

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Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is seldom explicit. They are utilitarian and political, the instruments of smooth-running government.

Lewis, Wyndham

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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courageous patience.

Rickover, Hyman G.

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A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

Maritain, Jacques

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The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.

William O. Douglas

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We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man may aspire, and yet be quite content until it is time to raise; and both flying and resting are but parts of one contentment. The very fruit of the gospel is aspiration. It is to the heart what spring is to the earth, making every root, and bud, and bough desire to be more. -

Beecher, Henry Ward

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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

Samuel Goldwyn

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Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Rohn, Jim

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In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations. Then someone got the idea that there were greater sources of supply deeper down. A well was drilled five thousand feet deep. The result? A gusher. Too many of us operate on the surface. We never go deep enough to find supernatural resources. The result is, we never operate at our best. More time and investment is involved to go deep but a gusher will pay off.

Montapert, Alfred A.

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Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

Jim Hightower

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You look at any giant corporation, and I mean the biggies, and they all started with a guy with an idea, doing it well.

Robbins, Irvine

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A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.

Bacon, Francis

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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

Hill, Napoleon

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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

Anatole France

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The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.