Motivational Quotes

Ideas

I'm not impressed with the power of a corporate president. I am impressed with the power of ideas.

- Mason, Ken

Best Quotes about Ideas

The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial.

Rorty, Richard

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Hyman Rickover

Ideas won't work unless you do.

It's a pretty good idea to be of good cheer but not all the time. Just at the most unexpected times.

The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.

William O. Douglas

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

What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea.

Saunders, Richard

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Hodges, Job E.

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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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They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.

Einstein, Albert

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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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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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Berry, John

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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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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Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.

Horton, Doug

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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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Ideas lose themselves as quickly as quail, and one must wing them the minute they rise out of the grass, or they are gone.

Kennedy, Thomas F.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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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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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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

Rostand, Jean

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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

Maritain, Jacques

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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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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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Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.