Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

- Edison, Thomas A.

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Sutton, Percy

Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.

Trotsky, Leon

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first.

Hodges, Job E.

It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are.

Fitzgerald, Penelope

When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Once I thought ideas were exceptions not the rule. That is not so. Ideas are so plentiful that they ride by on air. You've only to reach out and snatch one...

Mckeun, Rod

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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Saunders, Richard

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Horton, Doug

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The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

Bragg, Sir William

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Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

Hyman Rickover

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

Townsend, Robert

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An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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

Anatole France

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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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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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Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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.

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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bunche, Ralph

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

Pauling, Linus

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Chartier, Alain

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There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.

Emile Chartier

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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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All opening moves were the same, like in chess. You don't have to come up with anything new, there's no point, because you're both after the same thing anyway. The game soon finds its own way and it's only at that point that you need a strategy.

Paolo Giordano

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There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than politicians think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas... that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think.

Foucault, Michel

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

Marquis, Don