Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Brande, Dorothea

Best Quotes about Ideas

The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.

William O. Douglas

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

Brown, Les

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

Berry, John

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

Nelson, George

It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.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

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Horton, Doug

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

Hector Berlioz

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

Gide, Andre

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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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 fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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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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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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Mere words are cheap and plenty enough, but ideas that rouse and set multitudes thinking come as gold for the mines.

Penny, A. Owen

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

Lynch, David

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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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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.

Carl Schurz

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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bridgman, P. W.

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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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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something.

Simpson, E. L.

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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

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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

Koysis, Ted

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

Anatole France

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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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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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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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I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

John Cage

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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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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 won't work unless you do.

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

Pauling, Linus

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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

Chartier, Alain

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

Avery, Milton