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

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

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

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

It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.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

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Lynch, David

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

Munro, J. Richard

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.

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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Not the one who has many ideas, but the one who has a single conviction may become a great person.

Cotvos

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Judith Brocklehurst

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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

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

Jim Hightower

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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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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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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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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You have to hatch ideas -- and then hitch them.

Everson, Ray D.

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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 too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Horton, Doug

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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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Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

Hector Berlioz

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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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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