Motivational Quotes

Ideas

It first appeared like a crazy idea. It turned out he had a great idea.

- Munro, J. Richard

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Nelson, George

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

Go out and buy yourself a five-cent pencil and a ten-cent notebook and begin to write down some million-dollar ideas for yourself.

Grinde, Bob

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

Anatole France

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Everson, Ray D.

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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 a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Lynch, David

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Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wander whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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

Brown, Les

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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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Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

Eliot, George

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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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There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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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.

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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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.

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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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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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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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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.