Motivational Quotes

Ideas

The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting.

- Nelson, George

Best Quotes about Ideas

He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Pound, Ezra

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.

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

Brande, Dorothea

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Simpson, E. L.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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

Horton, Doug

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

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It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are.

Fitzgerald, Penelope

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We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.

Block, Henry

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Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.

Howard Aiken

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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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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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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Bridgman, P. W.

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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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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Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.

Keynes, John Maynard

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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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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 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.

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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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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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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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 not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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