Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Judith Brocklehurst

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Jim Hightower

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

Rivarol, Antoine

It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.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

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

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Rohn, Jim

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

An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it.

Bach, Richard

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

John Steinbeck

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Rostand, Jean

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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

P. B. Medawar

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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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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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

Brown, Les

30.

Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

31.

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

Everson, Ray D.

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He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

34.

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

Sutton, Percy

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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

Bunche, Ralph

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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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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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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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The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Avery, Milton

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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