Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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

Avery, Milton

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

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

Bunche, Ralph

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

Victor Hugo

Ideas lose themselves as quickly as quail, and one must wing them the minute they rise out of the grass, or they are gone.

Kennedy, Thomas F.

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Hodges, Job E.

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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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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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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wander whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Sutton, Percy

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.

Dogen

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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

Brande, Dorothea

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Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.

Ernst, Morris L.

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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Block, Henry

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

Brown, Les

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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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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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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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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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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Mason, Ken

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