Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Edison, Thomas A.

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Block, Henry

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

Sutton, Percy

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Avery, Milton

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

Victor Hugo

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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

Niblack, Griff

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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than politicians think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas... that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think.

Foucault, Michel

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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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When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.

Williamson, Marianne

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A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Hodges, Job E.

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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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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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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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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

Rorty, Richard

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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank.

Berry, John

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

Jim Hightower

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Saunders, Richard

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But how shall I get ideas? Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind -- Act!

Marden, Orison Swett

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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.

Ernst, Morris L.

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

Chartier, Alain

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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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If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.