Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Samuel Goldwyn

Best Quotes about Ideas

They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Hodges, Job E.

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you only have one.

Chartier, Alain

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Townsend, Robert

Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

But how shall I get ideas? Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind -- Act!

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Walter Bagehot

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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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

Berry, John

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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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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The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is seldom explicit. They are utilitarian and political, the instruments of smooth-running government.

Lewis, Wyndham

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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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Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

Hugo, Victor

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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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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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.

Keynes, John Maynard

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Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.

Carl Schurz

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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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Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

Hyman Rickover

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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!