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

Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

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

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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

Anatole France

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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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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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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

Twain, Mark

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I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

John Cage

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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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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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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 not responsible for the people who believe in it.

Marquis, Don

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

Judith Brocklehurst

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

Walter Bagehot

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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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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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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Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: (1) It's completely impossible. (2) It's possible, but it's not worth doing. (3) I said it was a good idea all along.

Clarke, Arthur C.

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

Victor Hugo

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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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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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Einstein, Albert

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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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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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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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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 single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

Maritain, Jacques

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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.