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

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

Butler, Samuel

If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he would make a fortune.

Niblack, Griff

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

Eliot, George

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

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

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

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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The idea is in my head to put it down is nothing.

Avery, Milton

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The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.

William O. Douglas

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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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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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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A new idea is like a child. It's easier to conceive than to deliver.

Koysis, Ted

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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 fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Bunche, Ralph

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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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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

Canetti, Elias

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

Sutton, Percy

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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

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I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

Georgia O'Keeffe

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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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A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank.

Berry, John

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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

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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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Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.