Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Bunche, Ralph

Best Quotes about Ideas

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.

An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Brown, Les

Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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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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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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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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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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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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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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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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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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

Sutton, Percy

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

Block, Henry

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

Marquis, Don

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.

J. B. S. Haldane

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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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

Rorty, Richard

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

Townsend, Robert

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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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Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.