Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

Best Quotes about 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.

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

Proust, Marcel

Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

All opening moves were the same, like in chess. You don't have to come up with anything new, there's no point, because you're both after the same thing anyway. The game soon finds its own way and it's only at that point that you need a strategy.

Paolo Giordano

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

Anatole France

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

Avery, Milton

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

Judith Brocklehurst

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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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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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

James, William

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

Chartier, Alain

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

Everson, Ray D.

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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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 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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Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it.

Kettering, Charles F.

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The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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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 is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

John Cage

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Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

Hector Berlioz

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

Marquis, Don

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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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

Berry, John

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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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Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first.

Hodges, Job E.

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

Saunders, Richard

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

Sutton, Percy

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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.