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

The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

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

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Bachelard, Gaston

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

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

Block, Henry

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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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To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

Frost, Robert

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Niblack, Griff

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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.

Emile Chartier

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

Marquis, Don

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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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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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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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Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

Hector Berlioz

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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 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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Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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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

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

Chartier, Alain

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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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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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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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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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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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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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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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

Eliot, George

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They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.

Einstein, Albert

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Twain, Mark

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Many ideas are good for a limited time -- not forever.

Townsend, Robert

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