Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first.

Hodges, Job E.

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

Sutton, Percy

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.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

Not the one who has many ideas, but the one who has a single conviction may become a great person.

Cotvos

Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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

Saunders, Richard

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

Everson, Ray D.

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Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

Maritain, Jacques

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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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A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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All opening moves were the same, like in chess. You don't have to come up with anything new, there's no point, because you're both after the same thing anyway. The game soon finds its own way and it's only at that point that you need a strategy.

Paolo Giordano

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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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An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it.

Bach, Richard

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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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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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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Judith Brocklehurst

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The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.

Lynch, David

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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

Chartier, Alain

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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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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Hugo, Victor

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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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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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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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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