Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Cotvos

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

Bunche, Ralph

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

Canetti, Elias

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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

Everson, Ray D.

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

Walter Bagehot

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If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he would make a fortune.

Niblack, Griff

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

Anatole France

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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

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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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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

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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Hugo, Victor

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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.

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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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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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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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

Alfred North Whitehead

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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