Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

- Cameron, Julie

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

Bridgman, P. W.

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

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

Hodges, Job E.

Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Trotsky, Leon

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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

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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 way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.

William O. Douglas

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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.

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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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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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The world moves, and ideas that were good once are not always good.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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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Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Bunche, Ralph

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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 vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

Alfred North Whitehead

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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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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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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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.