Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.

- Howard Aiken

Best Quotes about Ideas

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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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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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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.

Horton, Doug

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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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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

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

Picasso, Pablo

11.

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

Jim Hightower

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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Eliot, George

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

Proust, Marcel

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.

Rostand, Jean

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Munro, J. Richard

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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... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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

Everson, Ray D.

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

Frost, Robert

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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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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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

40.

Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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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

42.

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Pauling, Linus

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

44.

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

Anatole France

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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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A new idea is like a child. It's easier to conceive than to deliver.

Koysis, Ted

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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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If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De