Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Labor gives birth to ideas.

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Ideas

A handsome parson is fit for nothing but ti put ideas into the young woman's heads.

Judith Brocklehurst

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

Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

Walter Bagehot

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

John Steinbeck

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

John Cage

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The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.

Lynch, David

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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 are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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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

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Rostand, Jean

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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Horton, Doug

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

Everson, Ray D.

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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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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

Koysis, Ted

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

Anatole France

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Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea.

Saunders, Richard

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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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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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Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wander whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he would make a fortune.

Niblack, Griff

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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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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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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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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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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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 most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

Bragg, Sir William