Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Mann, Thomas

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Twain, Mark

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.

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

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

Sutton, Percy

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

Frost, Robert

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Such as take lodgings in a head that's to be let unfurnished.

Butler, Samuel

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

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

Rostand, Jean

10.

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

Hortense Calisher

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The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.

Keynes, John Maynard

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Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

Jim Hightower

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

Munro, J. Richard

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

Everson, Ray D.

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

Pauling, Linus

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There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

Mann, Thomas

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

Simpson, E. L.

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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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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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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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

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Mason, Ken

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.

Howard Aiken

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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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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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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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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The point, simply, is that we are doing more rediscovering these days than discovering coming anew upon truths that ignorant people refused to examine, over the centuries, because the wise people who held custody of the fundamental truths of nature were unpopular.

Williamson, John

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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.