Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Bridgman, P. W.

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Rostand, Jean

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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

The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting.

Nelson, George

Ideas won't work unless you do.

Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Frost, Robert

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

11.

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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So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.

J. B. S. Haldane

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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

Mann, Thomas

14.

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

Butler, Samuel

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Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Judith Brocklehurst

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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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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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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

Koysis, Ted

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

Trotsky, Leon

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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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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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

Saunders, Richard

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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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If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person.

Bunche, Ralph

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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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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The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Pauling, Linus

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Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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'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

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

Rorty, Richard

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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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The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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