Motivational Quotes

Ideas

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

- Pauling, Linus

Best Quotes about Ideas

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.

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

Frost, Robert

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

William O. Douglas

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

Koysis, Ted

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

Saunders, Richard

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

Cotvos

Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

Hector Berlioz

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Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.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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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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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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

Everson, Ray D.

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

Sutton, Percy

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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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

Marquis, Don

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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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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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He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Brown, Les

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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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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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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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

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Victor Hugo

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Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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

Butler, Samuel

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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