Motivational Quotes

Ideas

If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person.

- Bunche, Ralph

Best Quotes about Ideas

Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

A handsome parson is fit for nothing but ti put ideas into the young woman's heads.

Judith Brocklehurst

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

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

Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

Avery, Milton

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.

Howard Aiken

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

Eliot, George

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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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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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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Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

Hyman Rickover

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The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Pauling, Linus

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

Townsend, Robert

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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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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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Great people talk about ideas. Small people talk about other people.

Gibson, Tobias S.

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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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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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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person.

Bunche, Ralph

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

Maritain, Jacques

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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 move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Victor Hugo

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

Koysis, Ted

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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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I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

John Cage

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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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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 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.