Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Bunche, Ralph

Best Quotes about Ideas

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.

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

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

Butler, Samuel

If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he would make a fortune.

Niblack, Griff

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

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

Howard Aiken

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

Everson, Ray D.

The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

P. B. Medawar

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

Saunders, Richard

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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Chartier, Alain

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Horton, Doug

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

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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Hector Berlioz

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Bunche, Ralph

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

Townsend, Robert

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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

John Cage

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No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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

Anatole France

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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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The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial.

Rorty, Richard

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

Hill, Napoleon

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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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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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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