Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

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Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Horton, Doug

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

Eliot, George

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

Trotsky, Leon

When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Rohn, Jim

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

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Canetti, Elias

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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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Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first.

Hodges, Job E.

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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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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

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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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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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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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

Chartier, Alain

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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.

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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

Pound, Ezra

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He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Jim Hightower

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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

Lynch, David

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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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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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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.

Block, Henry

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Avery, Milton

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Think for thyself one good idea, but known to be thine own, is better than a thousand gleaned from fields by others sown.

Wilson, Alexander

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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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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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

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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 a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

Picasso, Pablo