Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

- Cameron, Julie

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

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.

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

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Hugo, Victor

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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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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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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 a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Once I thought ideas were exceptions not the rule. That is not so. Ideas are so plentiful that they ride by on air. You've only to reach out and snatch one...

Mckeun, Rod

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Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

John Steinbeck

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

Bunche, Ralph

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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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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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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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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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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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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

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

Everson, Ray D.

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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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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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He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Proust, Marcel

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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Ernst, Morris L.

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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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The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Chartier, Alain

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

Townsend, Robert

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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