Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

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

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

Horton, Doug

Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.

Bachelard, Gaston

Not the one who has many ideas, but the one who has a single conviction may become a great person.

Cotvos

There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Twain, Mark

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

Mason, Ken

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

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It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

Gide, Andre

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Everson, Ray D.

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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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In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.

Bacon, Francis

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

Saunders, Richard

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Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

John Steinbeck

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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Jim Hightower

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

Hyman Rickover

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

Berry, John

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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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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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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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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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Sutton, Percy

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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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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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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