Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Brande, Dorothea

Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!

Brown, Les

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Jim Hightower

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

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

Everson, Ray D.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Such as take lodgings in a head that's to be let unfurnished.

Butler, Samuel

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

Cotvos

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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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An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it.

Bach, Richard

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

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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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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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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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

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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 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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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

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It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

Canetti, Elias

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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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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.

Keynes, John Maynard

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There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

Bridgman, P. W.

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The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.

William O. Douglas

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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

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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than politicians think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas... that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think.

Foucault, Michel

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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

Bunche, Ralph

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

H. L. Mencken

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A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

Maritain, Jacques

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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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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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The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.

Carl Schurz

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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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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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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