Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Avery, Milton

Best Quotes about Ideas

Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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

Berry, John

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

John Cage

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

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

Block, Henry

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

Samuel Goldwyn

There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.

Emile Chartier

An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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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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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Pauling, Linus

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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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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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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

Brande, Dorothea

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It first appeared like a crazy idea. It turned out he had a great idea.

Munro, J. Richard

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

Chartier, Alain

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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

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

Horton, Doug

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Koysis, Ted

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Ideas lose themselves as quickly as quail, and one must wing them the minute they rise out of the grass, or they are gone.

Kennedy, Thomas F.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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