Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something.

- Simpson, E. L.

Best Quotes about Ideas

What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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.

This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

Hortense Calisher

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Walter Bagehot

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

Anatole France

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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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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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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

Bunche, Ralph

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Proust, Marcel

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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.

Ernst, Morris L.

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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Jim Hightower

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Twain, Mark

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

Hodges, Job E.

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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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

Bridgman, P. W.

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A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it.

Bach, Richard

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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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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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Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

Hyman Rickover

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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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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

Mann, Thomas

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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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Ideas lose themselves as quickly as quail, and one must wing them the minute they rise out of the grass, or they are gone.

Kennedy, Thomas F.

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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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Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.

Dogen

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

Berry, John