Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

- Brown, Ron

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

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

Samuel Goldwyn

Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.

Dogen

What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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

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

Eliot, George

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

Bridgman, P. W.

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

Twain, Mark

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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The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?

Carnegie, Dale

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Marquis, Don

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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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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

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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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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

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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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Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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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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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

Mann, Thomas

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An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it.

Bach, Richard

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

Koysis, Ted

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Sutton, Percy

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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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

Maritain, Jacques

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

Anatole France

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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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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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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man may aspire, and yet be quite content until it is time to raise; and both flying and resting are but parts of one contentment. The very fruit of the gospel is aspiration. It is to the heart what spring is to the earth, making every root, and bud, and bough desire to be more. -

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Bunche, Ralph

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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.