Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Berry, John

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Proust, Marcel

There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

Bridgman, P. W.

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

Bachelard, Gaston

Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.

Ernst, Morris L.

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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

Jim Hightower

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

Avery, Milton

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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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No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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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

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

Frost, Robert

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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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

Hugo, Victor

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Once I thought ideas were exceptions not the rule. That is not so. Ideas are so plentiful that they ride by on air. You've only to reach out and snatch one...

Mckeun, Rod

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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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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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

Mann, Thomas

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

Sutton, Percy

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

Twain, Mark

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Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.

Horton, Doug

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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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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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It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are.

Fitzgerald, Penelope

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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 the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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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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But how shall I get ideas? Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind -- Act!

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Lynch, David

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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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It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

Canetti, Elias

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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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.