Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Ideas

Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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.

Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Sutton, Percy

It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

Canetti, Elias

I'm not impressed with the power of a corporate president. I am impressed with the power of ideas.

Mason, Ken

Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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

Jim Hightower

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

Bunche, Ralph

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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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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Butler, Samuel

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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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

Trotsky, Leon

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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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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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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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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

Anatole France

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There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man. --

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.

Carl Schurz

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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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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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Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courageous patience.

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Marquis, Don

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

Emile Chartier

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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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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Rorty, Richard

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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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Ideas are fatal to caste.