Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Labor gives birth to ideas.

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about 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

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

Chartier, Alain

People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

Pound, Ezra

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

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

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

Mere words are cheap and plenty enough, but ideas that rouse and set multitudes thinking come as gold for the mines.

Penny, A. Owen

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

Bunche, Ralph

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Judith Brocklehurst

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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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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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Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Rohn, Jim

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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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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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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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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It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

Canetti, Elias

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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

Hyman Rickover

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Sutton, Percy

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

Horton, Doug

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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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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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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The point, simply, is that we are doing more rediscovering these days than discovering coming anew upon truths that ignorant people refused to examine, over the centuries, because the wise people who held custody of the fundamental truths of nature were unpopular.

Williamson, John