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

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

Lynch, David

Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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

Hyman Rickover

Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

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

Avery, Milton

A crank is someone with a new idea -- until it catches on.

Twain, Mark

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

Canetti, Elias

Ideas won't work unless you do.

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We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.

Block, Henry

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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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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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If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Townsend, Robert

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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bridgman, P. W.

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The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Pauling, Linus

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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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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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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.

Marquis, Don

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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Rohn, Jim

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

Hortense Calisher

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Proust, Marcel

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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

Rorty, Richard

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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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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Chartier, Alain

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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

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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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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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Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Their acquisition obligates each man in some way to change his life, even if it is only his inner life. They demand to be stood for. They dictate where a man must concentrate his vision. They determine his moral and intellectual priorities. They provide him with allies and make him enemies. In short, ideas impose an interest in their ultimate fate which goes far beyond the realm of the merely reasonable.

Decter, Midge

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

Sutton, Percy