Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Everson, Ray D.

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

Chartier, Alain

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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

Bunche, Ralph

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Alfred North Whitehead

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An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it.

Bach, Richard

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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

Bridgman, P. W.

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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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

Brande, Dorothea

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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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

Townsend, Robert

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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

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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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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Ideas are, in truth, force.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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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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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The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.

William O. Douglas

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

Pauling, Linus

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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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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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

Lynch, David

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.

Rivarol, Antoine

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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