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

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

Bunche, Ralph

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

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

Lynch, David

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.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Everson, Ray D.

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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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

Emile Chartier

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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Rorty, Richard

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

Sutton, Percy

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

John Cage

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There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man. --

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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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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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

Anatole France

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

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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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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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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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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

Avery, Milton

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

Frost, Robert

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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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We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.

Block, Henry

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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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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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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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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