Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Jim Hightower

Best Quotes about Ideas

Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Howard Aiken

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

Koysis, Ted

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.

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

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Samuel Goldwyn

The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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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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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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Victor Hugo

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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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

Hodges, Job E.

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

Marquis, Don

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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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A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

Proust, Marcel

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

Horton, Doug

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Ernst, Morris L.

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Einstein, Albert

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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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

Bunche, Ralph

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

Rorty, Richard

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

Lynch, David

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Eliot, George

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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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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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

Chartier, Alain

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

Berry, John