Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Labor gives birth to ideas.

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Ideas

Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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

Nelson, George

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

Eliot, George

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 one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

Hugo, Victor

Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.

Howard Aiken

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

Judith Brocklehurst

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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Horton, Doug

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Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Butler, Samuel

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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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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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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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The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.

William O. Douglas

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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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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 vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

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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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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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

Sutton, Percy

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

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Chartier, Alain

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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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A new idea is like a child. It's easier to conceive than to deliver.

Koysis, Ted

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