Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Bridgman, P. W.

Best Quotes about Ideas

It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are.

Fitzgerald, Penelope

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

Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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

Horton, Doug

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

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Walter Bagehot

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

Eliot, George

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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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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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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Hyman Rickover

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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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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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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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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Anatole France

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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 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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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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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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There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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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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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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Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.

Harris, Sidney J.

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

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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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An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it.

Bach, Richard

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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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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.

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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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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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