Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.

- Rivarol, Antoine

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Bridgman, P. W.

Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.

Carl Schurz

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Pauling, Linus

The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Brande, Dorothea

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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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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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Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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

Avery, Milton

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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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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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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

Townsend, Robert

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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person.

Bunche, Ralph

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

Horton, Doug

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

Frost, Robert

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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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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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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

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Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.

Ernst, Morris L.

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You look at any giant corporation, and I mean the biggies, and they all started with a guy with an idea, doing it well.

Robbins, Irvine

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Rorty, Richard

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People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

Pound, Ezra

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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

Proust, Marcel

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Sutton, Percy

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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

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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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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