Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

I'm not impressed with the power of a corporate president. I am impressed with the power of ideas.

Mason, Ken

Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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

Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Avery, Milton

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To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

Edison, Thomas A.

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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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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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.

Emile Chartier

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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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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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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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No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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Think for thyself one good idea, but known to be thine own, is better than a thousand gleaned from fields by others sown.

Wilson, Alexander

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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 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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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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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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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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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

Hortense Calisher

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Anatole France

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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

Hill, Napoleon

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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

Eliot, George