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

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.

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

Williamson, Marianne

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

Hugo, Victor

I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

Georgia O'Keeffe

I'm not impressed with the power of a corporate president. I am impressed with the power of ideas.

Mason, Ken

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

Nelson, George

Not the one who has many ideas, but the one who has a single conviction may become a great person.

Cotvos

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

Hortense Calisher

No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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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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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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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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The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Pauling, Linus

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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

James, William

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

Bridgman, P. W.

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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

19.

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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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

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man. --

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

Maritain, Jacques

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

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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

Mann, Thomas

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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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The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.

Lynch, David

32.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial.

Rorty, Richard

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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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.

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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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They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.

Einstein, Albert

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A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courageous patience.

Rickover, Hyman G.

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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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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... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

Brande, Dorothea

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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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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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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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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