Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Labor gives birth to ideas.

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Hodges, Job E.

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.

Keynes, John Maynard

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The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

Bragg, Sir William

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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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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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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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Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

Hugo, Victor

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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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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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

Bunche, Ralph

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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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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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

Eliot, George

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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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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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Think for thyself one good idea, but known to be thine own, is better than a thousand gleaned from fields by others sown.

Wilson, Alexander

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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

Mann, Thomas

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

Judith Brocklehurst

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Townsend, Robert

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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 not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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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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

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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca