Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Labor gives birth to ideas.

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Ideas

Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

Great people talk about ideas. Small people talk about other people.

Gibson, Tobias S.

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

John Steinbeck

So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.

J. B. S. Haldane

Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.

Dogen

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

Marquis, Don

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

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

Harris, Sidney J.

It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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 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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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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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Everson, Ray D.

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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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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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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

Trotsky, Leon

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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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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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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Twain, Mark

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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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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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Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!

Brown, Les

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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

Sutton, Percy

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

Frost, Robert

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Avery, Milton

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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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

Hodges, Job E.