Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Nelson, George

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Frost, Robert

An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Koysis, Ted

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

Rostand, Jean

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

The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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

Chartier, Alain

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

Twain, Mark

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A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Proust, Marcel

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Ideas lose themselves as quickly as quail, and one must wing them the minute they rise out of the grass, or they are gone.

Kennedy, Thomas F.

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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

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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 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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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 is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

Anatole France

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

Trotsky, Leon

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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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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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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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All opening moves were the same, like in chess. You don't have to come up with anything new, there's no point, because you're both after the same thing anyway. The game soon finds its own way and it's only at that point that you need a strategy.

Paolo Giordano

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

Sutton, Percy

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial.

Rorty, Richard

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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

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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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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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People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

Pound, Ezra

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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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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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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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 control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

Bridgman, P. W.

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