Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Townsend, Robert

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Judith Brocklehurst

When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Rohn, Jim

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

Brown, Les

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

Trotsky, Leon

Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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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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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Ernst, Morris L.

18.

What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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

Bridgman, P. W.

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

Horton, Doug

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

Bunche, Ralph

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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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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 and innovations must be driven into existence by courageous patience.

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

John Cage

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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

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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

Saunders, Richard

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The point, simply, is that we are doing more rediscovering these days than discovering coming anew upon truths that ignorant people refused to examine, over the centuries, because the wise people who held custody of the fundamental truths of nature were unpopular.

Williamson, John

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

Townsend, Robert

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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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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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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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