Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

- John Steinbeck

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Picasso, Pablo

There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

Bridgman, P. W.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

Everson, Ray D.

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

Emile Chartier

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

Hyman Rickover

A handsome parson is fit for nothing but ti put ideas into the young woman's heads.

Judith Brocklehurst

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

Butler, Samuel

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Think for thyself one good idea, but known to be thine own, is better than a thousand gleaned from fields by others sown.

Wilson, Alexander

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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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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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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Walter Bagehot

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

Anatole France

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

Chartier, Alain

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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Trotsky, Leon

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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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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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

Jim Hightower

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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Avery, Milton

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A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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

Sutton, Percy

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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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 move fast when their time comes.