Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Ideas

If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

Mann, Thomas

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

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Trotsky, Leon

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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

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

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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

Frost, Robert

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

Victor Hugo

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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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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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

Everson, Ray D.

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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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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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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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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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I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

Georgia O'Keeffe

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

Marquis, Don

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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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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An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

Picasso, Pablo

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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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

Avery, Milton

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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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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial.

Rorty, 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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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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Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

Eliot, George

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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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You look at any giant corporation, and I mean the biggies, and they all started with a guy with an idea, doing it well.

Robbins, Irvine

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

Saunders, Richard

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Hodges, Job E.

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Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.

Horton, Doug

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