Motivational Quotes

Ideas

An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.

- Marquis, Don

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

John Steinbeck

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

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he would make a fortune.

Niblack, Griff

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

Hugo, Victor

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

John Cage

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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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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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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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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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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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It's a pretty good idea to be of good cheer but not all the time. Just at the most unexpected times.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

H. L. Mencken

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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.

Bachelard, Gaston

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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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

Everson, Ray D.

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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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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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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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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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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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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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

Rorty, Richard

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It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.

Oech, Roger Von

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The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Pauling, Linus

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Einstein, Albert

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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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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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