Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Howard Aiken

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

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

Eliot, George

When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Brande, Dorothea

Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

Sutton, Percy

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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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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'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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In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.

Bacon, Francis

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Chartier, Alain

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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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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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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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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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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.

J. B. S. Haldane

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

Canetti, Elias

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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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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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

Horton, Doug

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A handsome parson is fit for nothing but ti put ideas into the young woman's heads.

Judith Brocklehurst

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Saunders, Richard

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

Rorty, Richard

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It's a pretty good idea to be of good cheer but not all the time. Just at the most unexpected times.

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

Bunche, Ralph

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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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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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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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The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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A new idea is like a child. It's easier to conceive than to deliver.

Koysis, Ted