Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Avery, Milton

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Maritain, Jacques

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

Whitehead, Alfred North

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

Many ideas are good for a limited time -- not forever.

Townsend, Robert

The world moves, and ideas that were good once are not always good.

Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.

Trotsky, Leon

An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.

Marquis, Don

A crank is someone with a new idea -- until it catches on.

Twain, Mark

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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

Alfred North Whitehead

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People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

Pound, Ezra

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We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.

Block, Henry

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If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!

Brown, Les

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To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

Edison, Thomas A.

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The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Pauling, Linus

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The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?

Carnegie, Dale

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Such as take lodgings in a head that's to be let unfurnished.

Butler, Samuel

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Mere words are cheap and plenty enough, but ideas that rouse and set multitudes thinking come as gold for the mines.

Penny, A. Owen

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A new idea is like a child. It's easier to conceive than to deliver.

Koysis, Ted

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There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

Bridgman, P. W.

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It's a pretty good idea to be of good cheer but not all the time. Just at the most unexpected times.

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If you have the same ideas as everybody else but have them one week earlier than everyone else then you will be hailed as a visionary. But if you have them five years earlier you will be named a lunatic.

Jones, Barry

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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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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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Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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Think for thyself one good idea, but known to be thine own, is better than a thousand gleaned from fields by others sown.

Wilson, Alexander

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

Brande, Dorothea

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An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

Picasso, Pablo

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I'm not impressed with the power of a corporate president. I am impressed with the power of ideas.

Mason, Ken

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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Walter Bagehot

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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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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It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.

Oech, Roger Von

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial.

Rorty, Richard

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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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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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

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The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

P. B. Medawar

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No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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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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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 new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

James, William

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It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.

Keynes, John Maynard