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

A new idea is like a child. It's easier to conceive than to deliver.

Koysis, Ted

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.

A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank.

Berry, John

Great people talk about ideas. Small people talk about other people.

Gibson, Tobias S.

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.

A crank is someone with a new idea -- until it catches on.

Twain, Mark

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Anatole France

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

Bridgman, P. W.

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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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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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To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.

Rostand, Jean

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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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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Rorty, Richard

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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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This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

Hortense Calisher

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

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Jim Hightower

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Butler, Samuel

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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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

Hyman Rickover

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

Ernst, Morris L.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Maritain, Jacques

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The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.

William O. Douglas

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