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

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

Howard Aiken

Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man. --

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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

They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.

Einstein, Albert

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

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Rostand, Jean

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

John Cage

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

Jim Hightower

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

Saunders, Richard

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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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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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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

Alfred North Whitehead

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A crank is someone with a new idea -- until it catches on.

Twain, Mark

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

Brande, Dorothea

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Think for thyself one good idea, but known to be thine own, is better than a thousand gleaned from fields by others sown.

Wilson, Alexander

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

John Steinbeck

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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

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

Hill, Napoleon

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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.

Marquis, Don

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Hortense Calisher

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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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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: (1) It's completely impossible. (2) It's possible, but it's not worth doing. (3) I said it was a good idea all along.

Clarke, Arthur C.

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

Maritain, Jacques

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