Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Mann, Thomas

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

Penny, A. Owen

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Ideas lose themselves as quickly as quail, and one must wing them the minute they rise out of the grass, or they are gone.

Kennedy, Thomas F.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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All opening moves were the same, like in chess. You don't have to come up with anything new, there's no point, because you're both after the same thing anyway. The game soon finds its own way and it's only at that point that you need a strategy.

Paolo Giordano

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Maritain, Jacques

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Avery, Milton

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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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There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.

Emile Chartier

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Twain, Mark

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Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Their acquisition obligates each man in some way to change his life, even if it is only his inner life. They demand to be stood for. They dictate where a man must concentrate his vision. They determine his moral and intellectual priorities. They provide him with allies and make him enemies. In short, ideas impose an interest in their ultimate fate which goes far beyond the realm of the merely reasonable.

Decter, Midge

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It first appeared like a crazy idea. It turned out he had a great idea.

Munro, J. Richard

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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