Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

Best Quotes about Ideas

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

John Steinbeck

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

Pauling, Linus

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Everson, Ray D.

Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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

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

Keynes, John Maynard

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Rorty, Richard

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hill, Napoleon

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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

Townsend, Robert

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Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man may aspire, and yet be quite content until it is time to raise; and both flying and resting are but parts of one contentment. The very fruit of the gospel is aspiration. It is to the heart what spring is to the earth, making every root, and bud, and bough desire to be more. -

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

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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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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Hyman Rickover

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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

Munro, J. Richard

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Paolo Giordano

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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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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.