Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Edison, Thomas A.

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Butler, Samuel

An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

Many ideas are good for a limited time -- not forever.

Townsend, Robert

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!

Brown, Les

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.

Oech, Roger Von

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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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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If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Pauling, Linus

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Horton, Doug

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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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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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

Twain, Mark

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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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It first appeared like a crazy idea. It turned out he had a great idea.

Munro, J. Richard

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

Everson, Ray D.

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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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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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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

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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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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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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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

Rorty, Richard

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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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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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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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 idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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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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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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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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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

Mann, Thomas