Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Avery, Milton

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Brown, Les

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea.

Saunders, Richard

The point, simply, is that we are doing more rediscovering these days than discovering coming anew upon truths that ignorant people refused to examine, over the centuries, because the wise people who held custody of the fundamental truths of nature were unpopular.

Williamson, John

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

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

Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.

Rostand, Jean

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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

Gide, Andre

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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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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Ideas lose themselves as quickly as quail, and one must wing them the minute they rise out of the grass, or they are gone.

Kennedy, Thomas F.

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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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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Maritain, Jacques

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Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Bunche, Ralph

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

Berry, John

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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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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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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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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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than politicians think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas... that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think.

Foucault, Michel

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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