Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Townsend, Robert

Best Quotes about Ideas

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.

The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

Alfred North Whitehead

Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

Jim Hightower

Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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

Cotvos

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

When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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

Hyman Rickover

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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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The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

P. B. Medawar

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

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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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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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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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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Ideas control the world.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Bunche, Ralph

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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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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

Walter Bagehot

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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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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

Townsend, Robert

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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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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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

Horton, Doug

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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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

Chartier, Alain

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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur 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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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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

Berry, John

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

Munro, J. Richard

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The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

Bragg, Sir William

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Rostand, Jean

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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

Marquis, Don