Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

Best Quotes about Ideas

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

2.

Ideas won't work unless you do.

3.

Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

4.

A new idea is like a child. It's easier to conceive than to deliver.

Koysis, Ted

5.

Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something.

Simpson, E. L.

6.

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 the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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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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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

10.

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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Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

Eliot, George

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

Mason, Ken

13.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

14.

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

Canetti, Elias

15.

There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

16.

What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

17.

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

Marquis, Don

18.

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

19.

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

Everson, Ray D.

20.

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

Munro, J. Richard

21.

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.

22.

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

Brown, Les

23.

Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

24.

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

25.

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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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

27.

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

Bridgman, P. W.

28.

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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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

30.

Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first.

Hodges, Job E.

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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

32.

Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courageous patience.

Rickover, Hyman G.

33.

Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.

Howard Aiken

34.

Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

35.

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

Sutton, Percy

36.

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

Walter Bagehot

37.

Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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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

39.

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

Twain, Mark

40.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

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

Rostand, Jean

42.

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

Mann, Thomas

43.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

44.

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

Jim Hightower

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Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea.

Saunders, Richard

46.

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

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Einstein, Albert

49.

There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.

Emile Chartier

50.

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.