Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Rivarol, Antoine

Best Quotes about Ideas

Ideas won't work unless you do.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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

Brande, Dorothea

Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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

Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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

Victor Hugo

It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.

Oech, Roger Von

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Such as take lodgings in a head that's to be let unfurnished.

Butler, Samuel

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The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.

Lynch, David

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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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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

P. B. Medawar

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is seldom explicit. They are utilitarian and political, the instruments of smooth-running government.

Lewis, Wyndham

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

Hodges, Job E.

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

Proust, Marcel

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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

Sutton, Percy

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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 great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Twain, Mark

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Bunche, Ralph

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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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Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.

Horton, Doug

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.

Carl Schurz

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

Trotsky, Leon