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

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

John Cage

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

Jim Hightower

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

James, William

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

John Steinbeck

Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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

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

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bridgman, P. W.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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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.

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

Everson, Ray D.

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Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

Eliot, George

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

Frost, Robert

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

Mason, Ken

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

Horton, Doug

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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 won't work unless you do.

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Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Their acquisition obligates each man in some way to change his life, even if it is only his inner life. They demand to be stood for. They dictate where a man must concentrate his vision. They determine his moral and intellectual priorities. They provide him with allies and make him enemies. In short, ideas impose an interest in their ultimate fate which goes far beyond the realm of the merely reasonable.

Decter, Midge

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

Pauling, Linus

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

Anatole France

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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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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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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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Think for thyself one good idea, but known to be thine own, is better than a thousand gleaned from fields by others sown.

Wilson, Alexander

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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

Koysis, Ted

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Walter Bagehot

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

Twain, Mark

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

Hugo, Victor

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I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

Georgia O'Keeffe

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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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Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you only have one.

Chartier, Alain

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

Hubbard, Elbert