Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Edison, Thomas A.

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

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

Sutton, Percy

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

Chartier, Alain

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

Ernst, Morris L.

What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

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

Lynch, David

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

Saunders, Richard

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

Emile Chartier

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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

Samuel Goldwyn

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The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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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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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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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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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 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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So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.

J. B. S. Haldane

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

Cotvos

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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Munro, J. Richard

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

Horton, Doug

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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Marquis, Don

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Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Rohn, Jim

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Bunche, Ralph

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No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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

Hyman Rickover

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

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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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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Eliot, George

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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