Motivational Quotes

Ideas

If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

- Mann, Thomas

Best Quotes about Ideas

The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

Alfred North Whitehead

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

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

Lynch, David

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

Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first.

Hodges, Job E.

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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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It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Brown, Les

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Judith Brocklehurst

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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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But how shall I get ideas? Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind -- Act!

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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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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The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

Bragg, Sir William

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

Ernst, Morris L.

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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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

Trotsky, Leon

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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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

Frost, Robert

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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

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

Eliot, George

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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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Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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