Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

- Cameron, Julie

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Mason, Ken

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.

The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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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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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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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 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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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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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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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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It's a pretty good idea to be of good cheer but not all the time. Just at the most unexpected times.

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Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

Hugo, Victor

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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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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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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Walter Bagehot

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Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

Hyman Rickover

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Rorty, Richard

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.

Keynes, John Maynard

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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man may aspire, and yet be quite content until it is time to raise; and both flying and resting are but parts of one contentment. The very fruit of the gospel is aspiration. It is to the heart what spring is to the earth, making every root, and bud, and bough desire to be more. -

Beecher, Henry Ward

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A handsome parson is fit for nothing but ti put ideas into the young woman's heads.

Judith Brocklehurst

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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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A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank.

Berry, John

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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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It first appeared like a crazy idea. It turned out he had a great idea.

Munro, J. Richard

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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

James, William

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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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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