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 are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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

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

Victor Hugo

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

Penny, A. Owen

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

Eliot, George

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

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

When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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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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An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

Frost, Robert

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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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The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

H. L. Mencken

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

Rostand, Jean

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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

John Cage

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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

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

James, William

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Saunders, Richard

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

Horton, Doug

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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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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!

Brown, Les

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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

Chartier, Alain

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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