Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Brande, Dorothea

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Ernst, Morris L.

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

Cotvos

Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.

Howard Aiken

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

Hector Berlioz

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

Avery, Milton

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

Brande, Dorothea

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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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

Block, Henry

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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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

Everson, Ray D.

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

Pauling, Linus

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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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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

Hugo, Victor

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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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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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Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first.

Hodges, Job E.

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The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

Bragg, Sir William

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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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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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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Twain, Mark

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

Canetti, Elias

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

Nelson, George

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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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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.

Rostand, Jean