Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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.

Best Quotes about Ideas

A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

Maritain, Jacques

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Walter Bagehot

What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Hodges, Job E.

An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

Frost, Robert

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Jim Hightower

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

Bunche, Ralph

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If you pray for only one thing, .let it be for an idea.

Sutton, Percy

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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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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

Williamson, Marianne

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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

Townsend, Robert

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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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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Such as take lodgings in a head that's to be let unfurnished.

Butler, Samuel

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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

Rostand, Jean

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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

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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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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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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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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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There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.

Emile Chartier

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

Chartier, Alain

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man may aspire, and yet be quite content until it is time to raise; and both flying and resting are but parts of one contentment. The very fruit of the gospel is aspiration. It is to the heart what spring is to the earth, making every root, and bud, and bough desire to be more. -

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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A crank is someone with a new idea -- until it catches on.

Twain, Mark

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It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

Gide, Andre

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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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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron