Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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.

Best Quotes about Ideas

An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

Picasso, Pablo

A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

James, William

Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Think for thyself one good idea, but known to be thine own, is better than a thousand gleaned from fields by others sown.

Wilson, Alexander

Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

Munro, J. Richard

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

Bridgman, P. W.

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Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Anatole France

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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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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

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Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wander whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.

Lynch, David

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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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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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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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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

Maritain, Jacques

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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.

Bacon, Francis

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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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

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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.

Rostand, Jean

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Such as take lodgings in a head that's to be let unfurnished.

Butler, Samuel

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

Einstein, Albert

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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

Alfred North Whitehead

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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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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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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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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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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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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