Motivational Quotes

Ideas

What you need is an idea.

- Lear, William P.

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Saunders, Richard

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Mason, Ken

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

Block, Henry

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first.

Hodges, Job E.

If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

Mann, Thomas

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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easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.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 discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Munro, J. Richard

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Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.

Dogen

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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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Not the one who has many ideas, but the one who has a single conviction may become a great person.

Cotvos

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

Pound, Ezra

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There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man. --

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.

Trotsky, Leon

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

Hyman Rickover

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Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Their acquisition obligates each man in some way to change his life, even if it is only his inner life. They demand to be stood for. They dictate where a man must concentrate his vision. They determine his moral and intellectual priorities. They provide him with allies and make him enemies. In short, ideas impose an interest in their ultimate fate which goes far beyond the realm of the merely reasonable.

Decter, Midge

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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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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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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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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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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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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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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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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.

William O. Douglas

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

Sutton, Percy

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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 move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.