Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Edison, Thomas A.

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Block, Henry

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Eliot, George

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.

Ernst, Morris L.

Ideas won't work unless you do.

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

When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

Bridgman, P. W.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

Bunche, Ralph

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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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Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Their acquisition obligates each man in some way to change his life, even if it is only his inner life. They demand to be stood for. They dictate where a man must concentrate his vision. They determine his moral and intellectual priorities. They provide him with allies and make him enemies. In short, ideas impose an interest in their ultimate fate which goes far beyond the realm of the merely reasonable.

Decter, Midge

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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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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

P. B. Medawar

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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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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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

Saunders, Richard

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The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting.

Nelson, George

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

Hugo, Victor

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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 best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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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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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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It's a pretty good idea to be of good cheer but not all the time. Just at the most unexpected times.

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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 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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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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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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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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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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I'm not impressed with the power of a corporate president. I am impressed with the power of ideas.