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

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

Howard Aiken

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

Hyman Rickover

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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

Berry, John

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Rohn, Jim

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Trotsky, Leon

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Maritain, Jacques

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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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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The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.

William O. Douglas

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

Chartier, Alain

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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

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

Avery, Milton

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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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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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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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

Anatole France

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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Simpson, E. L.

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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting.

Nelson, George

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

Saunders, Richard

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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 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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Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.

Harris, Sidney J.

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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

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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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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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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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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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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