Motivational Quotes

Ideas

An idea is the only level which moves the world.

- Corey, Arthur F.

Best Quotes about Ideas

Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations. Then someone got the idea that there were greater sources of supply deeper down. A well was drilled five thousand feet deep. The result? A gusher. Too many of us operate on the surface. We never go deep enough to find supernatural resources. The result is, we never operate at our best. More time and investment is involved to go deep but a gusher will pay off.

Montapert, Alfred A.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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.

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Marquis, Don

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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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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Canetti, Elias

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

Maritain, Jacques

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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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

Rorty, Richard

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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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An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it.

Bach, Richard

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

Twain, Mark

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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 won't work unless you do.

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

Everson, Ray D.

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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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A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank.

Berry, John

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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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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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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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The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.

Keynes, John Maynard

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Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.

Trotsky, Leon

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

Bunche, Ralph

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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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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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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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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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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 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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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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

Walter Bagehot

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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