Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Mere words are cheap and plenty enough, but ideas that rouse and set multitudes thinking come as gold for the mines.

- Penny, A. Owen

Best Quotes about Ideas

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

Gide, Andre

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

Proust, Marcel

It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.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

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

Niblack, Griff

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.

Carl Schurz

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

Townsend, Robert

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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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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 new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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

P. B. Medawar

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Munro, J. Richard

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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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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So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.

Brande, Dorothea

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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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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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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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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Jim Hightower

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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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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

Canetti, Elias

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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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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... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

John Cage

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

Sutton, Percy

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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A handsome parson is fit for nothing but ti put ideas into the young woman's heads.

Judith Brocklehurst

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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

Butler, Samuel

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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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