Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Labor gives birth to ideas.

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Williamson, Marianne

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

Picasso, Pablo

In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations. Then someone got the idea that there were greater sources of supply deeper down. A well was drilled five thousand feet deep. The result? A gusher. Too many of us operate on the surface. We never go deep enough to find supernatural resources. The result is, we never operate at our best. More time and investment is involved to go deep but a gusher will pay off.

Montapert, Alfred A.

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

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.

An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

I'm not impressed with the power of a corporate president. I am impressed with the power of ideas.

Mason, Ken

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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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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Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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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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There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

Bridgman, P. W.

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

Eliot, George

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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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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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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

Saunders, Richard

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An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.

Marquis, Don

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Chartier, Alain

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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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A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man. --

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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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 won't work unless you do.

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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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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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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Avery, Milton

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

Berry, John

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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