Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Rickover, Hyman G.

Best Quotes about Ideas

Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first.

Hodges, Job E.

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.

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

Hortense Calisher

Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

I'm not impressed with the power of a corporate president. I am impressed with the power of ideas.

Mason, Ken

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

Victor Hugo

Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

Jim Hightower

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

Cotvos

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

Frost, Robert

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

Avery, Milton

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There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

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Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something.

Simpson, E. L.

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

Brande, Dorothea

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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

Hyman Rickover

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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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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Marquis, Don

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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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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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

Hill, Napoleon