Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Chartier, Alain

Best Quotes about Ideas

Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are.

Fitzgerald, Penelope

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

Hortense Calisher

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

Mann, Thomas

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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 ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is seldom explicit. They are utilitarian and political, the instruments of smooth-running government.

Lewis, Wyndham

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Emile Chartier

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Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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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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The world moves, and ideas that were good once are not always good.

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If you have the same ideas as everybody else but have them one week earlier than everyone else then you will be hailed as a visionary. But if you have them five years earlier you will be named a lunatic.

Jones, Barry

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

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Go out and buy yourself a five-cent pencil and a ten-cent notebook and begin to write down some million-dollar ideas for yourself.

Grinde, Bob

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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Twain, Mark

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Hodges, Job E.

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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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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

42.

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

Brown, Les

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Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.

Horton, Doug

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