Motivational Quotes

Ideas

It's a pretty good idea to be of good cheer but not all the time. Just at the most unexpected times.

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If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he would make a fortune.

Niblack, Griff

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

Mann, Thomas

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

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

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

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you only have one.

Chartier, Alain

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

Hugo, Victor

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

Saunders, Richard

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Ernst, Morris L.

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Townsend, Robert

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

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

Avery, Milton

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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 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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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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

Williamson, Marianne

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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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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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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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Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: (1) It's completely impossible. (2) It's possible, but it's not worth doing. (3) I said it was a good idea all along.

Clarke, Arthur C.

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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 control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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

Pauling, Linus

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

Bunche, Ralph

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

Frost, Robert

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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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 move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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