Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Berry, John

Best Quotes about Ideas

Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.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

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: (1) It's completely impossible. (2) It's possible, but it's not worth doing. (3) I said it was a good idea all along.

Clarke, Arthur C.

So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.

J. B. S. Haldane

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

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

Proust, Marcel

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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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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

Koysis, Ted

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

Twain, Mark

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

Anatole France

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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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Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

Jim Hightower

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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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The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

P. B. Medawar

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

Mann, Thomas

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

Chartier, Alain

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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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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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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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The world moves, and ideas that were good once are not always good.

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

Brande, Dorothea

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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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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 fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.

Ernst, Morris L.

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Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!

Brown, Les

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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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He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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.