Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Townsend, Robert

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Maritain, Jacques

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

Rostand, Jean

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

If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it.

Kettering, Charles F.

Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Anatole France

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

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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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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.

Ernst, Morris L.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Bridgman, P. W.

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

Canetti, Elias

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

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.

J. B. S. Haldane

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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Proust, Marcel

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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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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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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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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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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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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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

Butler, Samuel

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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 move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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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 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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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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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

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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