Motivational Quotes

Ideas

The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.

- Lynch, David

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Rorty, Richard

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

Mann, Thomas

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.

Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something.

Simpson, E. L.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

Hugo, Victor

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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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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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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 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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Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.

Horton, Doug

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Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!

Brown, Les

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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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Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.

Carl Schurz

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

Sutton, Percy

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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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He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Eliot, George

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If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he would make a fortune.

Niblack, Griff

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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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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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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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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

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Anatole France

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Avery, Milton

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You have to hatch ideas -- and then hitch them.

Everson, Ray D.

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

Einstein, Albert

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An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.

Marquis, Don

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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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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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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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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur