Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Rostand, Jean

Best Quotes about Ideas

A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank.

Berry, John

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.

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

Bridgman, P. W.

Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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

Everson, Ray D.

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

Koysis, Ted

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

Nelson, George

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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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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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

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A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

Maritain, Jacques

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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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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To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

H. L. Mencken

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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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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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Not the one who has many ideas, but the one who has a single conviction may become a great person.

Cotvos

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

Rostand, Jean

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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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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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Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proust, Marcel

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