Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

- Jim Hightower

Best Quotes about Ideas

Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Canetti, Elias

Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

Hortense Calisher

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

Frost, Robert

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

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

Pauling, Linus

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Rorty, Richard

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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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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

John Steinbeck

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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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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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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 the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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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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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

Butler, Samuel

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There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man. --

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he would make a fortune.

Niblack, Griff

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Munro, J. Richard

29.

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

Judith Brocklehurst

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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

Bunche, Ralph

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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

James, William

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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 won't work unless you do.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Townsend, Robert

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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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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.

Keynes, John Maynard

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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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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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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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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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A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo