Motivational Quotes

Ideas

If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he would make a fortune.

- Niblack, Griff

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

John Cage

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

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

Chartier, Alain

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

Hugo, Victor

An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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

This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

Hortense Calisher

It's a pretty good idea to be of good cheer but not all the time. Just at the most unexpected times.

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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

Horton, Doug

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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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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Rorty, Richard

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Marquis, Don

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To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

H. L. Mencken

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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 best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Pauling, Linus

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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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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

Jim Hightower

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

Anatole France

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Their acquisition obligates each man in some way to change his life, even if it is only his inner life. They demand to be stood for. They dictate where a man must concentrate his vision. They determine his moral and intellectual priorities. They provide him with allies and make him enemies. In short, ideas impose an interest in their ultimate fate which goes far beyond the realm of the merely reasonable.

Decter, Midge

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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

Judith Brocklehurst

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

Eliot, George