Motivational Quotes

Ideas

He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Ideas

Mere words are cheap and plenty enough, but ideas that rouse and set multitudes thinking come as gold for the mines.

Penny, A. Owen

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

Einstein, Albert

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

People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

Pound, Ezra

It first appeared like a crazy idea. It turned out he had a great idea.

Munro, J. Richard

A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Judith Brocklehurst

Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Pauling, Linus

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

Saunders, Richard

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Everson, Ray D.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Marquis, Don

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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

Maritain, Jacques

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Berry, John

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Butler, Samuel

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If you pray for only one thing, .let it be for an idea.

Sutton, Percy

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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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Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!

Brown, Les

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

Koysis, Ted

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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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When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.

Williamson, Marianne

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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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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

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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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Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.

Dogen

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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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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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