Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Bridgman, P. W.

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Brande, Dorothea

Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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.

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Saunders, Richard

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

Avery, Milton

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

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he would make a fortune.

Niblack, Griff

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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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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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

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The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

Hortense Calisher

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An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Anatole France

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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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When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.

Williamson, Marianne

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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

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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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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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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

John Steinbeck

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It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.

Oech, Roger Von

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

Trotsky, Leon

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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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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

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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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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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

Munro, J. Richard

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

Horton, Doug

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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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

Hodges, Job E.

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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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There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.

Emile Chartier

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

Ernst, Morris L.

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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli