Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Brande, Dorothea

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

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

Maritain, Jacques

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

Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

Jim Hightower

Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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

Rorty, Richard

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

John Steinbeck

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

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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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

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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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We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.

Block, Henry

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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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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To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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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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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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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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A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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

Avery, Milton

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Berry, John

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An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.

Marquis, Don

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

Horton, Doug

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Hyman Rickover

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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Anatole France

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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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

Proust, Marcel

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al