Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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.

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

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

Sutton, Percy

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

Pound, Ezra

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

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

Rorty, Richard

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

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

Victor Hugo

The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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

Avery, Milton

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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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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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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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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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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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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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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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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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An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

Picasso, Pablo

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I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

Georgia O'Keeffe

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It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

Gide, Andre

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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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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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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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Chartier, Alain

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The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?

Carnegie, Dale

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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, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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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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Everything begins with an idea.