Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Niblack, Griff

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Rorty, Richard

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

Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.

Bacon, Francis

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

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

An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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

Sutton, Percy

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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 pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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

Horton, Doug

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

Twain, Mark

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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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I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

John Cage

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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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

Saunders, Richard

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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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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

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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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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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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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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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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Butler, Samuel

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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.