Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

Best Quotes about Ideas

When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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

Ernst, Morris L.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

It's a pretty good idea to be of good cheer but not all the time. Just at the most unexpected times.

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

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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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It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are.

Fitzgerald, Penelope

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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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It first appeared like a crazy idea. It turned out he had a great idea.

Munro, J. Richard

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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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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To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

James, William

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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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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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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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We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.

Block, Henry

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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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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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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Horton, Doug

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

Bridgman, P. W.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.

Harris, Sidney J.

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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

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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

Anatole France

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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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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds