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

Judith Brocklehurst

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Pauling, Linus

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Hugo, Victor

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

John Cage

They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.

Einstein, Albert

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Kettering, Charles F.

Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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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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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

13.

Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Their acquisition obligates each man in some way to change his life, even if it is only his inner life. They demand to be stood for. They dictate where a man must concentrate his vision. They determine his moral and intellectual priorities. They provide him with allies and make him enemies. In short, ideas impose an interest in their ultimate fate which goes far beyond the realm of the merely reasonable.

Decter, Midge

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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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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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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

Avery, Milton

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

Victor Hugo

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

24.

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

Chartier, Alain

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

Koysis, Ted

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

Horton, Doug

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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Rostand, Jean

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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 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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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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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

39.

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

Munro, J. Richard

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You have to hatch ideas -- and then hitch them.

Everson, Ray D.

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Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.

Carl Schurz

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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.

43.

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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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 new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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

Maritain, Jacques

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

Walter Bagehot