Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Labor gives birth to ideas.

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Emile Chartier

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

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

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

Bridgman, P. W.

Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.

Dogen

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

Canetti, Elias

Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.

Howard Aiken

People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

Pound, Ezra

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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

Sutton, Percy

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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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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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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

Williamson, Marianne

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Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

Hugo, Victor

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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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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Hyman Rickover

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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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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 handsome parson is fit for nothing but ti put ideas into the young woman's heads.

Judith Brocklehurst

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

Bunche, Ralph

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

Everson, Ray D.

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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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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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Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wander whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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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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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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A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains 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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The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.

Keynes, John Maynard

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

Trotsky, Leon

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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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

Rostand, Jean