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

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

Edison, Thomas A.

Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something.

Simpson, E. L.

Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Brown, Les

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

Hubbard, Elbert

An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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 best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Pauling, Linus

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Victor Hugo

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting.

Nelson, George

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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

Anatole France

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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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Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

Jim Hightower

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

Horton, Doug

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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Williamson, Marianne

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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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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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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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

Rorty, Richard

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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

Chartier, Alain

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It first appeared like a crazy idea. It turned out he had a great idea.

Munro, J. Richard

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

Frost, Robert