Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Jim Hightower

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

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

Butler, Samuel

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

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

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

Emile Chartier

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

Pauling, Linus

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

Marquis, Don

A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you only have one.

Chartier, Alain

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

Sutton, Percy

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

Frost, Robert

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

Brown, Les

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Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.

Ernst, Morris L.

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Lynch, David

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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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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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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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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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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

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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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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Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

Hyman Rickover

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wander whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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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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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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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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

Koysis, Ted

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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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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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Great people talk about ideas. Small people talk about other people.

Gibson, Tobias S.

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Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Munro, J. Richard

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

Edison, Thomas A.