Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Chartier, Alain

Best Quotes about Ideas

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Pauling, Linus

Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Not the one who has many ideas, but the one who has a single conviction may become a great person.

Cotvos

Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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

Koysis, Ted

There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.

Emile Chartier

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It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

Canetti, Elias

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

Mason, Ken

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So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.

Brande, Dorothea

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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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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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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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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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

Sutton, Percy

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

Walter Bagehot

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

John Cage

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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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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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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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 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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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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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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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.