Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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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Best Quotes about Ideas

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

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

Jim Hightower

The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting.

Nelson, George

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

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

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

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

Ernst, Morris L.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Emile Chartier

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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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

Avery, Milton

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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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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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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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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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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Brown, Les

29.

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

Anatole France

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

Bunche, Ralph

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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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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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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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A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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 are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Berry, John

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A handsome parson is fit for nothing but ti put ideas into the young woman's heads.

Judith Brocklehurst

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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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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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This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

Hortense Calisher

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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.