Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Bachelard, Gaston

Best Quotes about Ideas

Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

Frost, Robert

Ideas won't work unless you do.

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

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

Lynch, David

Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Avery, Milton

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

Hodges, Job E.

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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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

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

Bachelard, Gaston

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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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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 invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

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

Rostand, Jean

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

Hector Berlioz

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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Berry, John

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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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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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Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Their acquisition obligates each man in some way to change his life, even if it is only his inner life. They demand to be stood for. They dictate where a man must concentrate his vision. They determine his moral and intellectual priorities. They provide him with allies and make him enemies. In short, ideas impose an interest in their ultimate fate which goes far beyond the realm of the merely reasonable.

Decter, Midge

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

Anatole France

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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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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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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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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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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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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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Ideas are the roots of creation.