Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Labor gives birth to ideas.

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Ideas won't work unless you do.

The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

P. B. Medawar

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Munro, J. Richard

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting.

Nelson, George

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

Mann, Thomas

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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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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There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man. --

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

John Steinbeck

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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg 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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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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

John Cage

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

Townsend, Robert

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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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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 way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.

William O. Douglas

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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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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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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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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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 the nature of thought to find its way into action.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Hortense Calisher

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

Pauling, Linus

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

Brande, Dorothea

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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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

Jim Hightower

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry