Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first.

- Hodges, Job E.

Best Quotes about Ideas

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

Chartier, Alain

An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

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

Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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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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A new idea is like a child. It's easier to conceive than to deliver.

Koysis, Ted

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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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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 the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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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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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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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Nelson, George

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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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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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

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

Eliot, George

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

Anatole France

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

Rostand, Jean

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Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something.

Simpson, E. L.

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

Saunders, Richard

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I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

Georgia O'Keeffe

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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 like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.

Block, Henry

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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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A crank is someone with a new idea -- until it catches on.

Twain, Mark

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

Pauling, Linus