Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

Eliot, George

You look at any giant corporation, and I mean the biggies, and they all started with a guy with an idea, doing it well.

Robbins, Irvine

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

Bridgman, P. W.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Rohn, Jim

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

Everson, Ray D.

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

Marquis, Don

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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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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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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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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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

Ernst, Morris L.

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

Howard Aiken

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

Munro, J. Richard

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

Hortense Calisher

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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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

Williamson, Marianne

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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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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Anatole France

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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person.

Bunche, Ralph

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than politicians think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas... that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think.

Foucault, Michel

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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