Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Ideas

Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.

Howard Aiken

Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Pauling, Linus

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Townsend, Robert

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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 are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Avery, Milton

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

Saunders, Richard

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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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Mere words are cheap and plenty enough, but ideas that rouse and set multitudes thinking come as gold for the mines.

Penny, A. Owen

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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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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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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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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

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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

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

Sutton, Percy

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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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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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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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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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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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An idea discovered is much better possessed.