Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Everything begins with an idea.

- Nightingale, Earl

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Hodges, Job E.

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

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

Eliot, George

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

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

William O. Douglas

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Cotvos

When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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Once I thought ideas were exceptions not the rule. That is not so. Ideas are so plentiful that they ride by on air. You've only to reach out and snatch one...

Mckeun, Rod

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

Saunders, Richard

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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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

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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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Go out and buy yourself a five-cent pencil and a ten-cent notebook and begin to write down some million-dollar ideas for yourself.

Grinde, Bob

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

Avery, Milton

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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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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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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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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Judith Brocklehurst

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

Anatole France

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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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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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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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

Townsend, Robert

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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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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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There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

Bridgman, P. W.

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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