Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Mere words are cheap and plenty enough, but ideas that rouse and set multitudes thinking come as gold for the mines.

- Penny, A. Owen

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Twain, Mark

When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.

Williamson, Marianne

Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

Bachelard, Gaston

It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

Canetti, Elias

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

Hugo, Victor

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

Saunders, Richard

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

Victor Hugo

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

Howard Aiken

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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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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easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.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 can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Rohn, Jim

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

Trotsky, Leon

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The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.

Lynch, David

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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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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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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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

John Cage

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A handsome parson is fit for nothing but ti put ideas into the young woman's heads.

Judith Brocklehurst

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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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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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

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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

Everson, Ray D.

28.

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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 are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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

Marquis, Don

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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Hortense Calisher

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Berry, John

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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The idea is in my head to put it down is nothing.

Avery, Milton