Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Ideas

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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

Canetti, Elias

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

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

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

Berry, John

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

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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 too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Emile Chartier

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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Many ideas are good for a limited time -- not forever.

Townsend, Robert

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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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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You have to hatch ideas -- and then hitch them.

Everson, Ray D.

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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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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Koysis, Ted

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

Jim Hightower

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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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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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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

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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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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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

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

Eliot, George

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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 human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.