Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Judith Brocklehurst

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

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easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.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

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

Frost, Robert

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

Townsend, Robert

Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

I'm not impressed with the power of a corporate president. I am impressed with the power of ideas.

Mason, Ken

If you pray for only one thing, .let it be for an idea.

Sutton, Percy

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Koysis, Ted

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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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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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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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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The world moves, and ideas that were good once are not always good.

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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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

Avery, Milton

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

Brande, Dorothea

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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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

Pauling, Linus

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

Bridgman, P. W.

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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

Hector Berlioz

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea.

Saunders, Richard

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Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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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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We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.

Block, Henry

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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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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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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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It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hortense Calisher

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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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