Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Brande, Dorothea

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Kettering, Charles F.

It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.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

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Proust, Marcel

Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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

Hortense Calisher

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

Pauling, Linus

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

Avery, Milton

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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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Munro, J. Richard

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Brown, Les

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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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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.

Trotsky, Leon

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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Block, Henry

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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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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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A handsome parson is fit for nothing but ti put ideas into the young woman's heads.

Judith Brocklehurst

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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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

Sutton, Percy

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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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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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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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It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.

Keynes, John Maynard

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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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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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

Alfred North Whitehead

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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 won't work unless you do.

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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