Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Little words hurt big ideas.

- Newton, Howard W.

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

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

Howard Aiken

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

Berry, John

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

Penny, A. Owen

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

Eliot, George

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Rostand, Jean

In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.

Bacon, Francis

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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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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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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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

Hyman Rickover

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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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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.

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Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.

Ernst, Morris L.

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Marquis, Don

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

John Steinbeck

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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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It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.

Oech, Roger Von

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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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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Saunders, Richard

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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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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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A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

Maritain, Jacques

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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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