Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

Best Quotes about Ideas

Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Saunders, Richard

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

Alfred North Whitehead

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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.

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

Ideas won't work unless you do.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you only have one.

Chartier, Alain

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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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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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If you have the same ideas as everybody else but have them one week earlier than everyone else then you will be hailed as a visionary. But if you have them five years earlier you will be named a lunatic.

Jones, Barry

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

Sutton, Percy

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

Frost, Robert

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

John Cage

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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

Marquis, Don

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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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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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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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

Lynch, David

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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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 discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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

Walter Bagehot

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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

Pound, Ezra

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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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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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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