Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

- Cameron, Julie

Best Quotes about Ideas

Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

Brown, Les

Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.

Bachelard, Gaston

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

You have to hatch ideas -- and then hitch them.

Everson, Ray D.

People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

Pound, Ezra

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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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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A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

Maritain, Jacques

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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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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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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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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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Think for thyself one good idea, but known to be thine own, is better than a thousand gleaned from fields by others sown.

Wilson, Alexander

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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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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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.

Williamson, Marianne

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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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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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

William O. Douglas

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To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.

Rostand, Jean

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Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you only have one.

Chartier, Alain

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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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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

Hugo, Victor

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

Ernst, Morris L.

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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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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.

Keynes, John Maynard

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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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Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Mere words are cheap and plenty enough, but ideas that rouse and set multitudes thinking come as gold for the mines.

Penny, A. Owen

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Townsend, Robert

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