Motivational Quotes

Ideas

An idea is the only level which moves the world.

- Corey, Arthur F.

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Twain, Mark

Not the one who has many ideas, but the one who has a single conviction may become a great person.

Cotvos

Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Rorty, Richard

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

Koysis, Ted

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Maritain, Jacques

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Hodges, Job E.

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

Lynch, David

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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

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

Bridgman, P. W.

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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

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

Berry, John

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Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

H. L. Mencken

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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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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.

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

Butler, Samuel

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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

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

Saunders, Richard

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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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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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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... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Simpson, E. L.

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

Hugo, Victor

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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

Jim Hightower

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

Everson, Ray D.

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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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A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De