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

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

Simpson, E. L.

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

The idea is in my head to put it down is nothing.

Avery, Milton

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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

Canetti, Elias

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

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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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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

Berry, John

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

Marquis, Don

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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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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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 had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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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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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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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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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.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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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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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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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

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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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Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you only have one.

Chartier, Alain

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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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Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

Eliot, George

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Proust, Marcel

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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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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The point, simply, is that we are doing more rediscovering these days than discovering coming anew upon truths that ignorant people refused to examine, over the centuries, because the wise people who held custody of the fundamental truths of nature were unpopular.

Williamson, John

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Walter Bagehot