Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Koysis, Ted

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Avery, Milton

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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

Lynch, David

The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

P. B. Medawar

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

Berry, John

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

Jim Hightower

There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.

Emile Chartier

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.

Harris, Sidney J.

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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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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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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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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Niblack, Griff

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

Brown, Les

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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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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Walter Bagehot

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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

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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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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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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Hortense Calisher

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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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Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Rostand, Jean

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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

Sutton, Percy

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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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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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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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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Proust, Marcel

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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.

Schuller, Robert H.