Motivational Quotes

Ideas

A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

- Maritain, Jacques

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Kettering, Charles F.

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Ideas won't work unless you do.

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.

A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

Maritain, Jacques

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Judith Brocklehurst

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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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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.

Horton, Doug

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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

John Cage

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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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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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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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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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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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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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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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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Munro, J. Richard

35.

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

Bunche, Ralph

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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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Mere words are cheap and plenty enough, but ideas that rouse and set multitudes thinking come as gold for the mines.

Penny, A. Owen

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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

Hector Berlioz

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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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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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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

Hugo, Victor

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

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

Chartier, Alain