Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Samuel Goldwyn

Best Quotes about Ideas

There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.

Emile Chartier

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Brande, Dorothea

Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

Hector Berlioz

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

Eliot, George

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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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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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The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?

Carnegie, Dale

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Hodges, Job E.

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The point, simply, is that we are doing more rediscovering these days than discovering coming anew upon truths that ignorant people refused to examine, over the centuries, because the wise people who held custody of the fundamental truths of nature were unpopular.

Williamson, John

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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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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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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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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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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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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

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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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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

Hugo, Victor

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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

Chartier, Alain

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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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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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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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

Anatole France

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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It's a pretty good idea to be of good cheer but not all the time. Just at the most unexpected times.

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An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.

Marquis, Don

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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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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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The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial.

Rorty, Richard

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

Edison, Thomas A.