Motivational Quotes

Ideas

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

- Anatole France

Best Quotes about Ideas

Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Everson, Ray D.

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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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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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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

Samuel Goldwyn

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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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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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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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An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

Frost, Robert

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Rostand, Jean

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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 control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

Canetti, Elias

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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

Block, Henry

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

Lynch, David

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Townsend, Robert

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Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.

Trotsky, Leon

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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hyman Rickover

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

Sutton, Percy

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Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.

Dogen

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

Proust, Marcel

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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

Hodges, Job E.

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Their acquisition obligates each man in some way to change his life, even if it is only his inner life. They demand to be stood for. They dictate where a man must concentrate his vision. They determine his moral and intellectual priorities. They provide him with allies and make him enemies. In short, ideas impose an interest in their ultimate fate which goes far beyond the realm of the merely reasonable.

Decter, Midge

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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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When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.

Williamson, Marianne

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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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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

Anatole France

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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!

Brown, Les