Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Bridgman, P. W.

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Saunders, Richard

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

Lynch, David

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

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

John Steinbeck

Go out and buy yourself a five-cent pencil and a ten-cent notebook and begin to write down some million-dollar ideas for yourself.

Grinde, Bob

If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Walter Bagehot

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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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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The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.

William O. Douglas

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

Trotsky, Leon

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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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It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

Gide, Andre

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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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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.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Anatole France

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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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

Frost, Robert

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

Maritain, Jacques

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Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something.

Simpson, E. L.

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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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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Their acquisition obligates each man in some way to change his life, even if it is only his inner life. They demand to be stood for. They dictate where a man must concentrate his vision. They determine his moral and intellectual priorities. They provide him with allies and make him enemies. In short, ideas impose an interest in their ultimate fate which goes far beyond the realm of the merely reasonable.

Decter, Midge

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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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If you pray for only one thing, .let it be for an idea.

Sutton, Percy

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