Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Marquis, Don

Best Quotes about Ideas

Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Hyman Rickover

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

Twain, Mark

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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

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

Mason, Ken

The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.

Lynch, David

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A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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If you have the same ideas as everybody else but have them one week earlier than everyone else then you will be hailed as a visionary. But if you have them five years earlier you will be named a lunatic.

Jones, Barry

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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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

Rorty, Richard

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

Trotsky, Leon

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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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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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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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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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We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man may aspire, and yet be quite content until it is time to raise; and both flying and resting are but parts of one contentment. The very fruit of the gospel is aspiration. It is to the heart what spring is to the earth, making every root, and bud, and bough desire to be more. -

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Townsend, Robert

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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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A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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Think for thyself one good idea, but known to be thine own, is better than a thousand gleaned from fields by others sown.

Wilson, Alexander

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Horton, Doug

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

Marquis, Don

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

Brande, Dorothea

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People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

Pound, Ezra

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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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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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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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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wander whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Ideas move fast when their time comes.