Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

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

Nelson, George

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

Bragg, Sir William

If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

Mann, Thomas

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.

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

Niblack, Griff

Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

Rorty, Richard

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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

Trotsky, Leon

13.

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

Brown, Les

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If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person.

Bunche, Ralph

15.

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Avery, Milton

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

John Cage

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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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

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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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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

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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.

Bachelard, Gaston

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People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

Pound, Ezra

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Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you only have one.

Chartier, Alain

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

Horton, Doug

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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

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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

Anatole France

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

Saunders, Richard

37.

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

Sutton, Percy

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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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This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

Hortense Calisher

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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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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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

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

Butler, Samuel

47.

What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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

John Steinbeck

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