Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Everson, Ray D.

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Mere words are cheap and plenty enough, but ideas that rouse and set multitudes thinking come as gold for the mines.

Penny, A. Owen

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

Saunders, Richard

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

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

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

Mason, Ken

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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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If you have the same ideas as everybody else but have them one week earlier than everyone else then you will be hailed as a visionary. But if you have them five years earlier you will be named a lunatic.

Jones, Barry

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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

Hugo, Victor

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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something.

Simpson, E. L.

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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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The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial.

Rorty, Richard

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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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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first.

Hodges, Job E.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Walter Bagehot

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

Everson, Ray D.

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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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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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

Sutton, Percy

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Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

Bachelard, Gaston

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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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A crank is someone with a new idea -- until it catches on.

Twain, Mark

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Avery, Milton

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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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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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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than politicians think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas... that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think.

Foucault, Michel