Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Samuel Goldwyn

Best Quotes about Ideas

Great people talk about ideas. Small people talk about other people.

Gibson, Tobias S.

A new idea is like a child. It's easier to conceive than to deliver.

Koysis, Ted

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

Eliot, George

It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.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

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

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

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

Keynes, John Maynard

Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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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.

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

Trotsky, Leon

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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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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Hodges, Job E.

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

Avery, Milton

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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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We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.

Block, Henry

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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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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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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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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

Marquis, Don

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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

Saunders, Richard

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Judith Brocklehurst

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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Ideas won't work unless you do.

40.

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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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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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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The world moves, and ideas that were good once are not always good.

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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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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