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

The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

Alfred North Whitehead

Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.

Ernst, Morris L.

If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person.

Bunche, Ralph

No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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

Frost, Robert

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

Jim Hightower

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Hortense Calisher

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A new idea is like a child. It's easier to conceive than to deliver.

Koysis, Ted

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

Saunders, Richard

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

Avery, Milton

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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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

Eliot, George

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

Hyman Rickover

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Brown, Les

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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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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

Hugo, Victor

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