Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

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

Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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

Jim Hightower

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

Pauling, Linus

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Sutton, Percy

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

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

Avery, Milton

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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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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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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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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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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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Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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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A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank.

Berry, John

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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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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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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.

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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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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

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

Hyman Rickover

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Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Kettering, Charles F.