Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Townsend, Robert

The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting.

Nelson, George

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

Sutton, Percy

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Hodges, Job E.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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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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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Block, Henry

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

Avery, Milton

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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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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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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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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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

Eliot, George

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

Berry, John

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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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

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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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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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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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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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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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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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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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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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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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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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Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.

Carl Schurz

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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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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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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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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.