Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

You have to hatch ideas -- and then hitch them.

Everson, Ray D.

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

Hill, Napoleon

They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.

Einstein, Albert

An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.

Howard Aiken

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

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

Williamson, Marianne

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

Ernst, Morris L.

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If you have the same ideas as everybody else but have them one week earlier than everyone else then you will be hailed as a visionary. But if you have them five years earlier you will be named a lunatic.

Jones, Barry

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Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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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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It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.

Oech, Roger Von

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

Emile Chartier

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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

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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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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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I'm not impressed with the power of a corporate president. I am impressed with the power of ideas.

Mason, Ken

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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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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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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

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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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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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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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Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Horton, Doug

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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

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

Hugo, Victor

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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

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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 great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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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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A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

Maritain, Jacques