Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

- Neuharth, Al

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Anatole France

Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.

Howard Aiken

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

Gide, Andre

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

Hyman Rickover

An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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

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

Twain, Mark

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So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Alfred North Whitehead

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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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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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Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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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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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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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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

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

William O. Douglas

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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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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... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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

Berry, John

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To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

H. L. Mencken

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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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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?

Carnegie, Dale

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

Sutton, Percy

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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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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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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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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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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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

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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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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