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

Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Judith Brocklehurst

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

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

You have to hatch ideas -- and then hitch them.

Everson, Ray D.

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

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

Hyman Rickover

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

Twain, Mark

An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Maritain, Jacques

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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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

Anatole France

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

Howard Aiken

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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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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Chartier, Alain

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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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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

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Simpson, E. L.

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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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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The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial.

Rorty, Richard

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

Saunders, Richard

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Proust, Marcel

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.