Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Munro, J. Richard

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Kettering, Charles F.

Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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

Judith Brocklehurst

Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something.

Simpson, E. L.

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

John Cage

There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than politicians think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas... that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think.

Foucault, Michel

The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

Bragg, Sir William

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.

Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first.

Hodges, Job E.

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

Rostand, Jean

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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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

Anatole France

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

Sutton, Percy

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Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea.

Saunders, Richard

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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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Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!

Brown, Les

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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 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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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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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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A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

Proust, Marcel

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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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Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Berry, John

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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Rohn, Jim

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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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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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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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Penny, A. Owen