Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Whitehead, Alfred North

Best Quotes about Ideas

Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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

John Steinbeck

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

Not the one who has many ideas, but the one who has a single conviction may become a great person.

Cotvos

An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.

Lynch, David

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

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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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Chartier, Alain

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Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Their acquisition obligates each man in some way to change his life, even if it is only his inner life. They demand to be stood for. They dictate where a man must concentrate his vision. They determine his moral and intellectual priorities. They provide him with allies and make him enemies. In short, ideas impose an interest in their ultimate fate which goes far beyond the realm of the merely reasonable.

Decter, Midge

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

Williamson, Marianne

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Great people talk about ideas. Small people talk about other people.

Gibson, Tobias S.

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Trotsky, Leon

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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

James, William

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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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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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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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

Pauling, Linus

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

Judith Brocklehurst

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Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

Hugo, Victor

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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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The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.

William O. Douglas

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Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Brown, Les

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Walter Bagehot

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Anatole France

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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