Motivational Quotes

Ideas

An idea is the only level which moves the world.

- Corey, Arthur F.

Best Quotes about 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

Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Saunders, Richard

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

Mann, Thomas

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

Berry, John

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

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

Hector Berlioz

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

Block, Henry

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

Hortense Calisher

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

Marquis, Don

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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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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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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

Bunche, Ralph

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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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Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.

Carl Schurz

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I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

John Cage

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

Howard Aiken

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

Rorty, Richard

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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A handsome parson is fit for nothing but ti put ideas into the young woman's heads.

Judith Brocklehurst

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Everson, Ray D.

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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

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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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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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Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

Bachelard, Gaston

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I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

Georgia O'Keeffe

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Horton, Doug

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

Eliot, George

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It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

Gide, Andre

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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.