Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Cotvos

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are.

Fitzgerald, Penelope

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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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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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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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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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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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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

Emile Chartier

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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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They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.

Einstein, Albert

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Bunche, Ralph

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

Victor Hugo

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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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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 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 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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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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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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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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

Twain, Mark

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Sutton, Percy

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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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The idea is in my head to put it down is nothing.

Avery, Milton

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

Cotvos

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

Keynes, John Maynard