Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Ideas

They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.

Einstein, Albert

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

Proust, Marcel

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

Maritain, Jacques

An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

Frost, Robert

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

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

Williamson, Marianne

The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is seldom explicit. They are utilitarian and political, the instruments of smooth-running government.

Lewis, Wyndham

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Anatole France

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are.

Fitzgerald, Penelope

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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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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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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 too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Chartier, Alain

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Berry, John

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

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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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A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

Hyman Rickover

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Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wander whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea.

Saunders, Richard

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Many ideas are good for a limited time -- not forever.

Townsend, Robert

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

Horton, Doug

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

Koysis, Ted

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

Twain, Mark

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Little words hurt big ideas.