Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Howard Aiken

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Rohn, Jim

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

Anatole France

A crank is someone with a new idea -- until it catches on.

Twain, Mark

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

Pauling, Linus

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.

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Howard Aiken

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

Proust, Marcel

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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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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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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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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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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are.

Fitzgerald, Penelope

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

Hyman Rickover

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The point, simply, is that we are doing more rediscovering these days than discovering coming anew upon truths that ignorant people refused to examine, over the centuries, because the wise people who held custody of the fundamental truths of nature were unpopular.

Williamson, John

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

Avery, Milton

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