Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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Best Quotes about Ideas

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

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

Horton, Doug

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting.

Nelson, George

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Hyman Rickover

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

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.

Trotsky, Leon

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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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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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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 new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

Twain, Mark

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

Ernst, Morris L.

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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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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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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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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Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Sutton, Percy

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Jim Hightower

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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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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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

Eliot, George

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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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A new idea is like a child. It's easier to conceive than to deliver.

Koysis, Ted

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

Proust, Marcel

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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Berry, John