Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Edison, Thomas A.

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Einstein, Albert

Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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

Maritain, Jacques

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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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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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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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

Hugo, Victor

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

Hyman Rickover

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Rostand, Jean

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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Judith Brocklehurst

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

Block, Henry

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Brown, Les

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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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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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

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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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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

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

Saunders, Richard

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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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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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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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

Chartier, Alain

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

Marquis, Don

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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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