Motivational Quotes

Ideas

We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.

- Block, Henry

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

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.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

John Steinbeck

Ideas won't work unless you do.

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

Munro, J. Richard

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Berry, John

What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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

Anatole France

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Sutton, Percy

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

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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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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

Cotvos

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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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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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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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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.

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The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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 vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Walter Bagehot

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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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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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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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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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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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

Marquis, Don

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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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Everson, Ray D.

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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

Lynch, David

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

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Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona