Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Townsend, Robert

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

Whitehead, Alfred North

What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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

Victor Hugo

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.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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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

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

Marquis, Don

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

Proust, Marcel

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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

Hugo, Victor

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Chartier, Alain

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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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Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Sutton, Percy

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

Brown, Les

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Walter Bagehot

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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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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

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Munro, J. Richard

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

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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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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