Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Mason, Ken

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Berry, John

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

William O. Douglas

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

Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

John Cage

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Trotsky, Leon

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If you have the same ideas as everybody else but have them one week earlier than everyone else then you will be hailed as a visionary. But if you have them five years earlier you will be named a lunatic.

Jones, Barry

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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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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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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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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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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When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.

Williamson, Marianne

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A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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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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The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Everson, Ray D.

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

Block, Henry

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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Bunche, Ralph

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Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Sutton, Percy

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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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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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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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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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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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Walter Bagehot