Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Berry, John

Best Quotes about Ideas

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Pauling, Linus

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting.

Nelson, George

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Hodges, Job E.

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

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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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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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

Lynch, David

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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

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

John Cage

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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.

Marquis, Don

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

Avery, Milton

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

Hugo, Victor

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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

James, William

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

Munro, J. Richard

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Saunders, Richard

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

Chartier, Alain

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

Everson, Ray D.

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To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.

Rostand, Jean

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So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Maritain, Jacques

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

Judith Brocklehurst

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

Hyman Rickover