Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Little words hurt big ideas.

- Newton, Howard W.

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Cotvos

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Alfred North Whitehead

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.

Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Horton, Doug

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

Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

10.

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

Saunders, Richard

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Ideas won't work unless you do.

13.

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

Bridgman, P. W.

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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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

Hugo, Victor

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

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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

Rorty, Richard

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

Samuel Goldwyn

28.

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

Anatole France

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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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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The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.

Keynes, John Maynard

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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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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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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 fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Chartier, Alain

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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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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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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You have to hatch ideas -- and then hitch them.

Everson, Ray D.

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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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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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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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This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

Hortense Calisher

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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

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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