Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Avery, Milton

Best Quotes about Ideas

Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first.

Hodges, Job E.

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

It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.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

A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank.

Berry, John

When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

Eliot, George

10.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

11.

If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

Mann, Thomas

12.

The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

13.

If you pray for only one thing, .let it be for an idea.

Sutton, Percy

14.

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

Brown, Les

15.

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

Avery, Milton

16.

This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

Hortense Calisher

17.

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

Block, Henry

18.

Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

19.

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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Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.

Harris, Sidney J.

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The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

Hubbard, Elbert

22.

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

24.

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

Jim Hightower

25.

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

Proust, Marcel

26.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

27.

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

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Once I thought ideas were exceptions not the rule. That is not so. Ideas are so plentiful that they ride by on air. You've only to reach out and snatch one...

Mckeun, Rod

29.

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

Lynch, David

30.

There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.

Emile Chartier

31.

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

Bunche, Ralph

32.

I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

Georgia O'Keeffe

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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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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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All opening moves were the same, like in chess. You don't have to come up with anything new, there's no point, because you're both after the same thing anyway. The game soon finds its own way and it's only at that point that you need a strategy.

Paolo Giordano

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Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wander whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

John Cage

39.

An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

40.

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

H. L. Mencken

41.

It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are.

Fitzgerald, Penelope

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Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.

Carl Schurz

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

Canetti, Elias

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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Long is the road from conception to completion.