Motivational Quotes

Ideas

The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.

- William O. Douglas

Best Quotes about Ideas

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.

Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Judith Brocklehurst

Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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

Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Their acquisition obligates each man in some way to change his life, even if it is only his inner life. They demand to be stood for. They dictate where a man must concentrate his vision. They determine his moral and intellectual priorities. They provide him with allies and make him enemies. In short, ideas impose an interest in their ultimate fate which goes far beyond the realm of the merely reasonable.

Decter, Midge

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

John Steinbeck

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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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easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.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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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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

Trotsky, Leon

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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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All opening moves were the same, like in chess. You don't have to come up with anything new, there's no point, because you're both after the same thing anyway. The game soon finds its own way and it's only at that point that you need a strategy.

Paolo Giordano

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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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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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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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Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.

Howard Aiken

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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

Avery, Milton

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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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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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

Hortense Calisher

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A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

41.

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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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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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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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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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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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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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.