Motivational Quotes

Ideas

An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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.

A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

James, William

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Townsend, Robert

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Pauling, Linus

Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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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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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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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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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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

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

Marquis, Don

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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Frost, Robert

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Einstein, Albert

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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

Mann, Thomas

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

John Cage

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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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

Brande, Dorothea

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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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

Hyman Rickover

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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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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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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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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

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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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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If you have the same ideas as everybody else but have them one week earlier than everyone else then you will be hailed as a visionary. But if you have them five years earlier you will be named a lunatic.

Jones, Barry

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People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

Pound, Ezra

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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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

Rostand, Jean

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Mere words are cheap and plenty enough, but ideas that rouse and set multitudes thinking come as gold for the mines.