Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Avery, Milton

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Bunche, Ralph

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

Pauling, Linus

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

P. B. Medawar

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.

Dogen

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

Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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

Judith Brocklehurst

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Eliot, George

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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 control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

Bridgman, P. W.

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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

Hugo, Victor

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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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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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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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An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

Frost, Robert

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

Avery, Milton

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It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are.

Fitzgerald, Penelope

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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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Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

Hyman Rickover

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Sutton, Percy

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: (1) It's completely impossible. (2) It's possible, but it's not worth doing. (3) I said it was a good idea all along.

Clarke, Arthur C.

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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

Anatole France

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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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The world moves, and ideas that were good once are not always good.