Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

Best Quotes about Ideas

An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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.

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Horton, Doug

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Koysis, Ted

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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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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

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

Berry, John

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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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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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Once I thought ideas were exceptions not the rule. That is not so. Ideas are so plentiful that they ride by on air. You've only to reach out and snatch one...

Mckeun, Rod

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Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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

Mann, Thomas

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

Williamson, Marianne

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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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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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

Emile Chartier

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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he would make a fortune.

Niblack, Griff

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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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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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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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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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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

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

Townsend, Robert

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