Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Hector Berlioz

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Everson, Ray D.

An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

Picasso, Pablo

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

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

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Avery, Milton

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

Marquis, Don

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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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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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Once I thought ideas were exceptions not the rule. That is not so. Ideas are so plentiful that they ride by on air. You've only to reach out and snatch one...

Mckeun, Rod

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Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.

Carl Schurz

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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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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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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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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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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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

Edison, Thomas 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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So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.

J. B. S. Haldane

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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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There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

Bridgman, P. W.

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If you have the same ideas as everybody else but have them one week earlier than everyone else then you will be hailed as a visionary. But if you have them five years earlier you will be named a lunatic.

Jones, Barry

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It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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

John Steinbeck

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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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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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This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

Hortense Calisher

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

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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Walter Bagehot