Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

William O. Douglas

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

Avery, Milton

Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.

Howard Aiken

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Townsend, Robert

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

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

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

Williamson, Marianne

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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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

Bragg, Sir William

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If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he would make a fortune.

Niblack, Griff

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Eliot, George

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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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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

19.

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

Bunche, Ralph

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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 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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Go out and buy yourself a five-cent pencil and a ten-cent notebook and begin to write down some million-dollar ideas for yourself.

Grinde, Bob

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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

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A handsome parson is fit for nothing but ti put ideas into the young woman's heads.

Judith Brocklehurst

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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

Sutton, Percy

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

Munro, J. Richard

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.