Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Gibson, Tobias S.

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

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

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

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

John Cage

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

Ernst, Morris L.

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

Bunche, Ralph

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

Butler, Samuel

The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.

Lynch, David

Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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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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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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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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There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man. --

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Chartier, Alain

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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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 vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Horton, Doug

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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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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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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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This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

Hortense Calisher

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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Williamson, Marianne

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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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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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Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

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

Jim Hightower