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

Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

The point, simply, is that we are doing more rediscovering these days than discovering coming anew upon truths that ignorant people refused to examine, over the centuries, because the wise people who held custody of the fundamental truths of nature were unpopular.

Williamson, John

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

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

Brown, Les

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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It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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

Mann, Thomas

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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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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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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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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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.

Marquis, Don

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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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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Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

Picasso, Pablo

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There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

Bridgman, P. W.

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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

Anatole France

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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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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Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first.

Hodges, Job E.

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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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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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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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man. --

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you only have one.

Chartier, Alain

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

Avery, Milton

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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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