Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Bunche, Ralph

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

Hyman Rickover

Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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.

If you pray for only one thing, .let it be for an idea.

Sutton, Percy

Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Everson, Ray D.

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

Berry, John

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

Brown, Les

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There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than politicians think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas... that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think.

Foucault, Michel

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

Hortense Calisher

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

Bachelard, Gaston

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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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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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Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Eliot, George

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

Ernst, Morris L.

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

Victor Hugo

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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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 have a great idea, have a lot of them.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

Jim Hightower