Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

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.

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

Townsend, Robert

Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Ernst, Morris L.

An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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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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I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

John Cage

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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea.

Saunders, Richard

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

Horton, Doug

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

Walter Bagehot

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The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial.

Rorty, Richard

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

Proust, Marcel

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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 too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something.

Simpson, E. L.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Pauling, Linus

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You have to hatch ideas -- and then hitch them.

Everson, Ray D.

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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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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Rostand, Jean

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The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: (1) It's completely impossible. (2) It's possible, but it's not worth doing. (3) I said it was a good idea all along.

Clarke, Arthur C.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Bunche, Ralph

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

Avery, Milton

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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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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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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.