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

I'm not impressed with the power of a corporate president. I am impressed with the power of ideas.

Mason, Ken

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

Hector Berlioz

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

John Steinbeck

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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.

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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They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.

Einstein, Albert

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

Anatole France

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

James, William

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We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.

Block, Henry

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

Emile Chartier

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

Bunche, Ralph

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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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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 first appeared like a crazy idea. It turned out he had a great idea.

Munro, J. Richard

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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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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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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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Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Sutton, Percy

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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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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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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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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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

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

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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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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

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

Jim Hightower

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

Hyman Rickover