Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

- Brown, Ron

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Saunders, Richard

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

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

Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

I'm not impressed with the power of a corporate president. I am impressed with the power of ideas.

Mason, Ken

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hugo, Victor

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

P. B. Medawar

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

Maritain, Jacques

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There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man. --

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emile Chartier

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

Bridgman, P. W.

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Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Rohn, Jim

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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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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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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

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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 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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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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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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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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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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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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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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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

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Sutton, Percy

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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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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