Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Penny, A. Owen

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

Saunders, Richard

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

Avery, Milton

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.

When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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

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

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

John Steinbeck

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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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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 are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

Proust, Marcel

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People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

Pound, Ezra

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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

James, William

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

Sutton, Percy

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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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There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

Bridgman, P. W.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Mason, Ken

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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Bunche, Ralph

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

Marquis, Don

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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.

Howard Aiken

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

Jim Hightower

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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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Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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

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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere