Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Hodges, Job E.

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Trotsky, Leon

An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

Frost, Robert

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

Bunche, Ralph

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Sutton, Percy

The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.

William O. Douglas

It's a pretty good idea to be of good cheer but not all the time. Just at the most unexpected times.

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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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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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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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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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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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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A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank.

Berry, John

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Rorty, Richard

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

Hortense Calisher

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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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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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

Eliot, George

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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

Everson, Ray D.

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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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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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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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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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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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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

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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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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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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There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.

Emile Chartier

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Their acquisition obligates each man in some way to change his life, even if it is only his inner life. They demand to be stood for. They dictate where a man must concentrate his vision. They determine his moral and intellectual priorities. They provide him with allies and make him enemies. In short, ideas impose an interest in their ultimate fate which goes far beyond the realm of the merely reasonable.

Decter, Midge

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