Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

- Cameron, Julie

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

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

Howard Aiken

I'm not impressed with the power of a corporate president. I am impressed with the power of ideas.

Mason, Ken

Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting.

Nelson, George

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

Edison, Thomas A.

Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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

Ernst, Morris L.

There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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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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It's a pretty good idea to be of good cheer but not all the time. Just at the most unexpected times.

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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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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 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

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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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Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first.

Hodges, Job E.

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Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.

Carl Schurz

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Trotsky, Leon

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Once I thought ideas were exceptions not the rule. That is not so. Ideas are so plentiful that they ride by on air. You've only to reach out and snatch one...

Mckeun, Rod

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Saunders, Richard

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

Frost, Robert

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

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

Eliot, George

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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Mere words are cheap and plenty enough, but ideas that rouse and set multitudes thinking come as gold for the mines.

Penny, A. Owen

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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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Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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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

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

Williamson, Marianne