Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Sutton, Percy

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

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

Anatole France

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

Williamson, Marianne

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

Edison, Thomas A.

It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.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

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.

Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

I'm not impressed with the power of a corporate president. I am impressed with the power of ideas.

Mason, Ken

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

Chartier, Alain

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Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Horton, Doug

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

Sutton, Percy

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

John Cage

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

Saunders, Richard

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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

Mann, Thomas

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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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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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The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

P. B. Medawar

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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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

Eliot, George

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It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are.

Fitzgerald, Penelope

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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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 are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Avery, Milton

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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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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 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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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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

Butler, Samuel

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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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

Emile Chartier