Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Munro, J. Richard

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Kettering, Charles F.

Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.

Horton, Doug

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

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

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

Bunche, Ralph

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

Einstein, Albert

A handsome parson is fit for nothing but ti put ideas into the young woman's heads.

Judith Brocklehurst

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.

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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If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he would make a fortune.

Niblack, Griff

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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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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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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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

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Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Koysis, Ted

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Jim Hightower

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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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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 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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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Avery, Milton

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Sutton, Percy

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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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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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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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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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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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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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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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