Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Go out and buy yourself a five-cent pencil and a ten-cent notebook and begin to write down some million-dollar ideas for yourself.

- Grinde, Bob

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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

There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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

Rorty, Richard

The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Saunders, 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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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

Butler, Samuel

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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Niblack, Griff

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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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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This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

Hortense Calisher

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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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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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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It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are.

Fitzgerald, Penelope

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It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.

Oech, Roger Von

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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Everson, Ray D.

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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

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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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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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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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In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.

Bacon, Francis

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

Trotsky, Leon

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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Hugo, Victor

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