Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

Best Quotes about Ideas

Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

Everson, Ray D.

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

Williamson, Marianne

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Avery, Milton

The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

P. B. Medawar

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.

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

Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Rorty, Richard

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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

Canetti, Elias

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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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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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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Carnegie, Dale

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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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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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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

Mann, Thomas

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

Sutton, Percy

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Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

Jim Hightower

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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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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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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The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.

Lynch, David