Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Hyman Rickover

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

Bunche, Ralph

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

Hector Berlioz

People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

Pound, Ezra

Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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

There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

Bridgman, P. W.

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

Chartier, Alain

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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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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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Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courageous patience.

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Koysis, Ted

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

Munro, J. Richard

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

Anatole France

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There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than politicians think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas... that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think.

Foucault, Michel

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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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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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

Frost, Robert

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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 are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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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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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Proust, Marcel

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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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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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Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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 too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.