Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Trotsky, Leon

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

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

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?

Carnegie, Dale

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

John Cage

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

Bunche, Ralph

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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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Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Everson, Ray D.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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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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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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

Avery, Milton

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Marquis, Don

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

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Jim Hightower

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

Twain, Mark

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

Trotsky, Leon

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The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.

Keynes, John Maynard

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The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

Bragg, Sir William

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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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

Horton, Doug

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Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

Hector Berlioz

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

Frost, Robert

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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

Judith Brocklehurst

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

Saunders, Richard

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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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The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.

Lynch, David

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Townsend, Robert