Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

- Hyman Rickover

Best Quotes about Ideas

Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something.

Simpson, E. L.

It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

Picasso, Pablo

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

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.

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

Judith Brocklehurst

Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Nelson, George

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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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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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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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If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

Frost, Robert

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

Mann, Thomas

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An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.

Marquis, Don

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

Avery, Milton

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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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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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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

Everson, Ray D.

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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Great people talk about ideas. Small people talk about other people.

Gibson, Tobias S.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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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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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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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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

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

Walter Bagehot

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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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The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

Bragg, Sir William

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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It first appeared like a crazy idea. It turned out he had a great idea.

Munro, J. Richard

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Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wander whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.

Ernst, Morris L.

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

Bunche, Ralph