Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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.

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Pound, Ezra

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Walter Bagehot

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Eliot, George

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

Mann, Thomas

The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

Hubbard, Elbert

It's a pretty good idea to be of good cheer but not all the time. Just at the most unexpected times.

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

Saunders, Richard

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Munro, J. Richard

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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Horton, Doug

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An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

Frost, Robert

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

Marquis, Don

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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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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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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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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Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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

Victor Hugo

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Hyman Rickover

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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

Avery, Milton

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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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This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

Hortense Calisher

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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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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.

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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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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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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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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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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you only have one.

Chartier, Alain

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

Everson, Ray D.

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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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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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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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