Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Ideas... they have the power

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Keynes, John Maynard

The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.

Lynch, David

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

Avery, Milton

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

Marquis, Don

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

Hugo, Victor

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

Brande, Dorothea

The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Everson, Ray D.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!

Brown, Les

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

Rorty, Richard

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

Penny, A. Owen

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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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It first appeared like a crazy idea. It turned out he had a great idea.

Munro, J. Richard

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Twain, Mark

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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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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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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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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.

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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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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

Picasso, Pablo

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Many ideas are good for a limited time -- not forever.

Townsend, Robert

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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

Saunders, Richard

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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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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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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