Motivational Quotes

Ideas

An idea is the only level which moves the world.

- Corey, Arthur F.

Best Quotes about Ideas

Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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

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.

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

Hortense Calisher

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

Rorty, Richard

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

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Alfred North Whitehead

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Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

Frost, Robert

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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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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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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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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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

Anatole France

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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

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

Proust, Marcel

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Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

Hector Berlioz

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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

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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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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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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

Hugo, Victor

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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

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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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 adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

Bridgman, P. W.

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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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

Block, Henry

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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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

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

Townsend, Robert

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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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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The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.

William O. Douglas

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But how shall I get ideas? Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind -- Act!

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Avery, Milton

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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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

Saunders, Richard