Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Mere words are cheap and plenty enough, but ideas that rouse and set multitudes thinking come as gold for the mines.

- Penny, A. Owen

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

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

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Judith Brocklehurst

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.

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

Einstein, Albert

An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courageous patience.

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Block, Henry

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Walter Bagehot

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

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

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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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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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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Townsend, Robert

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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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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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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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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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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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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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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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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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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.