Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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.

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Jim Hightower

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

Hugo, Victor

Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is seldom explicit. They are utilitarian and political, the instruments of smooth-running government.

Lewis, Wyndham

Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

Montapert, Alfred A.

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

Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.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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A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Brown, Les

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Many ideas are good for a limited time -- not forever.

Townsend, Robert

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Rostand, Jean

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

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

Sutton, Percy

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Not the one who has many ideas, but the one who has a single conviction may become a great person.

Cotvos

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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Lynch, David

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Bunche, Ralph

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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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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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

Twain, Mark

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

Hyman Rickover

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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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The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting.

Nelson, George

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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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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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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Saunders, Richard

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

Samuel Goldwyn