Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Samuel Goldwyn

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Saunders, Richard

When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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

Mason, Ken

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

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

Hodges, Job E.

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.

Block, Henry

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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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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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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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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.

Williamson, Marianne

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If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than politicians think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas... that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think.

Foucault, Michel

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Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person.

Bunche, Ralph

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Such as take lodgings in a head that's to be let unfurnished.

Butler, Samuel

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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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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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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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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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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Avery, Milton

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.

Oech, Roger Von

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Nelson, George

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Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Pauling, Linus

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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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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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In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations. Then someone got the idea that there were greater sources of supply deeper down. A well was drilled five thousand feet deep. The result? A gusher. Too many of us operate on the surface. We never go deep enough to find supernatural resources. The result is, we never operate at our best. More time and investment is involved to go deep but a gusher will pay off.

Montapert, Alfred A.

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Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.

Howard Aiken

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

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