Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Samuel Goldwyn

I'm not impressed with the power of a corporate president. I am impressed with the power of ideas.

Mason, Ken

Ideas won't work unless you do.

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

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

Saunders, Richard

No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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

Ernst, Morris L.

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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

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

Avery, Milton

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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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He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Brande, Dorothea

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You have to hatch ideas -- and then hitch them.

Everson, Ray D.

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Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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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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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

Mann, Thomas

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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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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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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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If you pray for only one thing, .let it be for an idea.

Sutton, Percy

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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

Rostand, Jean

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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person.

Bunche, Ralph

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Chartier, Alain

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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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People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

Pound, Ezra

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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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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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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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