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

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

John Steinbeck

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

Brande, Dorothea

Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something.

Simpson, E. L.

If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he would make a fortune.

Niblack, Griff

Great people talk about ideas. Small people talk about other people.

Gibson, Tobias S.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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

Proust, Marcel

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It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Rostand, Jean

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But how shall I get ideas? Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind -- Act!

Marden, Orison Swett

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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

Everson, Ray D.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Berry, John

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Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

Jim Hightower

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

Pauling, Linus

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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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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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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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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

Mann, Thomas

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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 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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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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We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.

Block, Henry

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

Hector Berlioz

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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 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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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.