Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courageous patience.

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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.

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

William O. Douglas

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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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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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Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.

Trotsky, Leon

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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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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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

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

Anatole France

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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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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

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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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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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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Bridgman, P. W.

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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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When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.

Williamson, Marianne

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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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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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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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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'm not impressed with the power of a corporate president. I am impressed with the power of ideas.

Mason, Ken

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

Judith Brocklehurst

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wander whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Avery, Milton

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The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

P. B. Medawar