Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Niblack, Griff

Best Quotes about Ideas

A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.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

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

William O. Douglas

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

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Not the one who has many ideas, but the one who has a single conviction may become a great person.

Cotvos

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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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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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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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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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

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

Hugo, Victor

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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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To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

H. L. Mencken

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

Maritain, Jacques

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A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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

Everson, Ray D.

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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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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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

Saunders, Richard

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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Such as take lodgings in a head that's to be let unfurnished.

Butler, Samuel

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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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

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

Emile Chartier

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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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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The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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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