Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Little words hurt big ideas.

- Newton, Howard W.

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Eliot, George

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas 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

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

Pound, Ezra

Not the one who has many ideas, but the one who has a single conviction may become a great person.

Cotvos

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

John Steinbeck

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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

Proust, Marcel

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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

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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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It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

Gide, Andre

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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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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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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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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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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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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

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

Hodges, Job E.

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

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

Rorty, Richard

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

Everson, Ray D.

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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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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.

Keynes, John Maynard