Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Ideas control the world.

- Garfield, James A.

Best Quotes about Ideas

Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Saunders, Richard

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Rohn, Jim

Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first.

Hodges, Job E.

Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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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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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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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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

Koysis, Ted

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Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Horton, Doug

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

Sutton, Percy

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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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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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Rorty, Richard

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

Anatole France

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Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Twain, Mark

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

Eliot, George

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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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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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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The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is seldom explicit. They are utilitarian and political, the instruments of smooth-running government.

Lewis, Wyndham

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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courageous patience.

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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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