Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Ernst, Morris L.

Best Quotes about Ideas

You have to hatch ideas -- and then hitch them.

Everson, Ray D.

Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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

Eliot, George

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

Canetti, Elias

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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

Anatole France

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

Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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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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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Hyman Rickover

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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

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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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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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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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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 idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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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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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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It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

Gide, Andre

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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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

Trotsky, Leon

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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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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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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.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.

Harris, Sidney J.

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