Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

Best Quotes about Ideas

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

Hodges, Job E.

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

P. B. Medawar

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

Walter Bagehot

The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is seldom explicit. They are utilitarian and political, the instruments of smooth-running government.

Lewis, Wyndham

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

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

Frost, Robert

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

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

Brown, Les

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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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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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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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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Saunders, Richard

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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

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

Chartier, Alain

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

Twain, Mark

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

Bunche, Ralph

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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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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

Gide, Andre

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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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

Pauling, Linus

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

Berry, John

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The point, simply, is that we are doing more rediscovering these days than discovering coming anew upon truths that ignorant people refused to examine, over the centuries, because the wise people who held custody of the fundamental truths of nature were unpopular.

Williamson, John

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

Avery, Milton

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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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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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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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

Sutton, Percy

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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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