Motivational Quotes

Ideas

What you need is an idea.

- Lear, William P.

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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

Kettering, Charles F.

All opening moves were the same, like in chess. You don't have to come up with anything new, there's no point, because you're both after the same thing anyway. The game soon finds its own way and it's only at that point that you need a strategy.

Paolo Giordano

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Howard Aiken

Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something.

Simpson, E. L.

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

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea.

Saunders, Richard

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

Lynch, David

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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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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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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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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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To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

H. L. Mencken

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Emile Chartier

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Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he would make a fortune.

Niblack, Griff

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

Bunche, Ralph

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There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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'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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Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

Hugo, Victor

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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Bridgman, P. W.

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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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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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

Marquis, Don

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.