Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Glasgow, Arnold H.

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Mann, Thomas

Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

Hubbard, Elbert

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Berry, John

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

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Walter Bagehot

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

Chartier, Alain

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

Alfred North Whitehead

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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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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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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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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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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

Einstein, Albert

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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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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We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.

Block, Henry

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Pauling, Linus

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Sutton, Percy

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

Hodges, Job E.

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I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

Georgia O'Keeffe

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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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

Rorty, Richard

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

Jim Hightower

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

Anatole France

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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Avery, Milton

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A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

Proust, Marcel

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Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: (1) It's completely impossible. (2) It's possible, but it's not worth doing. (3) I said it was a good idea all along.

Clarke, Arthur C.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell