Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

- Brown, Ron

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

Hubbard, Elbert

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

Whitehead, Alfred North

Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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.

Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.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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In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations. Then someone got the idea that there were greater sources of supply deeper down. A well was drilled five thousand feet deep. The result? A gusher. Too many of us operate on the surface. We never go deep enough to find supernatural resources. The result is, we never operate at our best. More time and investment is involved to go deep but a gusher will pay off.

Montapert, Alfred A.

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

Everson, Ray D.

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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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A crank is someone with a new idea -- until it catches on.

Twain, Mark

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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Horton, Doug

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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

Mann, Thomas

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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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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Rorty, Richard

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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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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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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

Hill, Napoleon

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Think for thyself one good idea, but known to be thine own, is better than a thousand gleaned from fields by others sown.

Wilson, Alexander

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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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

Munro, J. Richard

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Avery, Milton

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.

Carl Schurz

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Ideas lose themselves as quickly as quail, and one must wing them the minute they rise out of the grass, or they are gone.

Kennedy, Thomas F.

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

Brown, Les

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Ideas are fatal to caste.