Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Sir Frederick G. Banting

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Horton, Doug

Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.

Lynch, David

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

A crank is someone with a new idea -- until it catches on.

Twain, Mark

People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

Pound, Ezra

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

Bridgman, P. W.

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Anatole France

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

Avery, Milton

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It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

Canetti, Elias

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Koysis, Ted

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

Marquis, Don

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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

Maritain, Jacques

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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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

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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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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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Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.

Trotsky, Leon

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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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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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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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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Williamson, Marianne

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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

Rorty, Richard

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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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