Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Mason, Ken

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

Bridgman, P. W.

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

Bunche, Ralph

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

Butler, Samuel

A crank is someone with a new idea -- until it catches on.

Twain, Mark

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

Picasso, Pablo

It's a pretty good idea to be of good cheer but not all the time. Just at the most unexpected times.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

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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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

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

Walter Bagehot

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

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

Chartier, Alain

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Ideas lose themselves as quickly as quail, and one must wing them the minute they rise out of the grass, or they are gone.

Kennedy, Thomas F.

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

Williamson, Marianne

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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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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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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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

Proust, Marcel

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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Hugo, Victor

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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is seldom explicit. They are utilitarian and political, the instruments of smooth-running government.

Lewis, Wyndham

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

Judith Brocklehurst

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Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wander whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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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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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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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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It first appeared like a crazy idea. It turned out he had a great idea.

Munro, J. Richard