Motivational Quotes

Ideas

An idea is the only level which moves the world.

- Corey, Arthur F.

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

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

Trotsky, Leon

What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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.

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

Rostand, Jean

Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something.

Simpson, E. L.

People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

Pound, Ezra

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

Rorty, Richard

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

Maritain, Jacques

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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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Go out and buy yourself a five-cent pencil and a ten-cent notebook and begin to write down some million-dollar ideas for yourself.

Grinde, Bob

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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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All opening moves were the same, like in chess. You don't have to come up with anything new, there's no point, because you're both after the same thing anyway. The game soon finds its own way and it's only at that point that you need a strategy.

Paolo Giordano

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Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

Hugo, Victor

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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

James, William

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Williamson, Marianne

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He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

Jim Hightower

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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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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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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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

Everson, Ray D.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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

Ernst, Morris L.

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Chartier, Alain

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Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

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

Twain, Mark

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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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