Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

Best Quotes about Ideas

Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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

Saunders, Richard

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

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

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Chartier, Alain

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Berry, John

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A new idea is like a child. It's easier to conceive than to deliver.

Koysis, Ted

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

Victor Hugo

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There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.

Emile Chartier

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If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he would make a fortune.

Niblack, Griff

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

John Steinbeck

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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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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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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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

Avery, Milton

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

Alfred North Whitehead

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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial.

Rorty, Richard

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Hodges, Job E.

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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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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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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Horton, Doug

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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 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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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 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 are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

Townsend, Robert

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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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If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von