Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Brande, Dorothea

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Brown, Les

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

Hubbard, Elbert

If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he would make a fortune.

Niblack, Griff

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

P. B. Medawar

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

Marquis, Don

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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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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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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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We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.

Block, Henry

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Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Avery, Milton

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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Bachelard, Gaston

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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 new idea is like a child. It's easier to conceive than to deliver.

Koysis, Ted

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

Hugo, Victor

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Many ideas are good for a limited time -- not forever.

Townsend, Robert

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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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Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.

Emile Chartier

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

Frost, Robert

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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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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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To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

H. L. Mencken

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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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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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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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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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It first appeared like a crazy idea. It turned out he had a great idea.

Munro, J. Richard

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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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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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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.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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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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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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