Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Samuel Goldwyn

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

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

Victor Hugo

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

Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Brown, Les

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

Berry, John

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

Mason, Ken

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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 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 vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

Alfred North Whitehead

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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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If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Saunders, Richard

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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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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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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

John Cage

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Munro, J. Richard

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People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

Pound, Ezra

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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

Trotsky, Leon

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Horton, Doug

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.

Bacon, Francis

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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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 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