Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Brande, Dorothea

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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

Victor Hugo

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

P. B. Medawar

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

Everson, Ray D.

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person.

Bunche, Ralph

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

Jim Hightower

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

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

Sutton, Percy

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The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting.

Nelson, George

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Marquis, Don

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Brande, Dorothea

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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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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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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

Alfred North Whitehead

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Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.

Harris, Sidney J.

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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.

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Twain, Mark

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy 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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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 control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

William O. Douglas

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

Hodges, Job E.

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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.