Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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.

Best Quotes about Ideas

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you only have one.

Chartier, Alain

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

John Steinbeck

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

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

Avery, Milton

Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something.

Simpson, E. L.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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.

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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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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Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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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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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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

Sutton, Percy

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

Koysis, Ted

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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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Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

Hugo, Victor

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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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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Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.

Rivarol, Antoine

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There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Saunders, Richard

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

Hodges, Job E.

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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Hector Berlioz

36.

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

Bunche, Ralph

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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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So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.

J. B. S. Haldane

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

Frost, Robert

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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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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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 man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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Not the one who has many ideas, but the one who has a single conviction may become a great person.

Cotvos

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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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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