Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Jim Hightower

Best Quotes about Ideas

When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

Hector Berlioz

An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Koysis, Ted

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Avery, Milton

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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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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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 crank is someone with a new idea -- until it catches on.

Twain, Mark

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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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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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There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Jim Hightower

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Chartier, Alain

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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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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

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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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The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.

Keynes, John Maynard

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But how shall I get ideas? Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind -- Act!

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Einstein, Albert

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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Marquis, Don

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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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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