Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.

- Dogen

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Saunders, Richard

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

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

Cotvos

Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Everson, Ray D.

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

Hyman Rickover

A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank.

Berry, John

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

Butler, Samuel

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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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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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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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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The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Horton, Doug

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

Frost, Robert

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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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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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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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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

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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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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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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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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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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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The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.

Keynes, John Maynard

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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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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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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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Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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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.