Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

5.

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

Saunders, Richard

6.

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

Hyman Rickover

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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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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

9.

Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.

Trotsky, Leon

10.

Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

11.

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

12.

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

Bridgman, P. W.

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

Alfred North Whitehead

14.

Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

15.

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

Munro, J. Richard

16.

An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

17.

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

Avery, Milton

18.

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

Brande, Dorothea

19.

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

Ernst, Morris L.

20.

Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courageous patience.

Rickover, Hyman G.

21.

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

Bachelard, Gaston

22.

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

23.

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

24.

Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

25.

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

26.

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

Mason, Ken

27.

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

Brown, Les

28.

A handsome parson is fit for nothing but ti put ideas into the young woman's heads.

Judith Brocklehurst

29.

Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

30.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

31.

What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

32.

Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

33.

Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

34.

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

36.

Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

37.

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

Maritain, Jacques

38.

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

39.

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

40.

The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial.

Rorty, Richard

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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

42.

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

James, William

43.

Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

44.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

48.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

49.

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.

50.

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