Motivational Quotes

Ideas

The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

- Schopenhauer, Arthur

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

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

Horton, Doug

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

Proust, Marcel

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

John Steinbeck

Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

Frost, Robert

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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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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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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

James, William

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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 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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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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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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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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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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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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The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.

William O. Douglas

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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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Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Chartier, Alain

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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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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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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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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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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It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

Gide, Andre

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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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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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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It first appeared like a crazy idea. It turned out he had a great idea.

Munro, J. Richard

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Mere words are cheap and plenty enough, but ideas that rouse and set multitudes thinking come as gold for the mines.

Penny, A. Owen

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

Marquis, Don

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The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.

Keynes, John Maynard

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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!

Brown, Les

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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