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

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

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

Lynch, David

Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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.

It's a pretty good idea to be of good cheer but not all the time. Just at the most unexpected times.

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

William O. Douglas

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

Howard Aiken

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!

Brown, Les

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Einstein, Albert

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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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

Maritain, Jacques

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The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.

Keynes, John Maynard

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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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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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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 is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

Anatole France

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

Avery, Milton

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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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Great people talk about ideas. Small people talk about other people.

Gibson, Tobias S.

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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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He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Saunders, Richard

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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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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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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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It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.

Oech, Roger Von

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

John Cage

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

Rostand, Jean

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The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Pauling, Linus

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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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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