Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

- Bachelard, Gaston

Best Quotes about Ideas

This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

Hortense Calisher

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

The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

H. L. Mencken

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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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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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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

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

Sutton, Percy

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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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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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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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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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There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than politicians think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas... that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think.

Foucault, Michel

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

Brande, Dorothea

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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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All opening moves were the same, like in chess. You don't have to come up with anything new, there's no point, because you're both after the same thing anyway. The game soon finds its own way and it's only at that point that you need a strategy.

Paolo Giordano

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

Koysis, Ted

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

Hodges, Job E.

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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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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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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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

Chartier, Alain

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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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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

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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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If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it.

Kettering, Charles F.

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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

Horton, Doug

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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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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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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

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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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

Frost, Robert