Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Not the one who has many ideas, but the one who has a single conviction may become a great person.

Cotvos

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

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

Eliot, George

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

Bunche, Ralph

It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

Canetti, Elias

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Chartier, Alain

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The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial.

Rorty, Richard

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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

Sutton, Percy

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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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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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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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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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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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Everson, Ray D.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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.

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Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: (1) It's completely impossible. (2) It's possible, but it's not worth doing. (3) I said it was a good idea all along.

Clarke, Arthur C.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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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 a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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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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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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

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

Townsend, Robert

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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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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young