Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Marquis, Don

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.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

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

Koysis, Ted

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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.

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

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

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

Everson, Ray D.

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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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Labor gives birth to ideas.

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Berry, John

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

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

John Steinbeck

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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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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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

Marquis, Don

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

Saunders, Richard

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

Nelson, George

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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

Rostand, Jean

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Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Avery, Milton

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

Hugo, Victor

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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Victor Hugo