Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Bunche, Ralph

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Townsend, Robert

When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.

Marquis, Don

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

Rorty, Richard

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Walter Bagehot

An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you only have one.

Chartier, Alain

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

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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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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You look at any giant corporation, and I mean the biggies, and they all started with a guy with an idea, doing it well.

Robbins, Irvine

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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

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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easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.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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When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.

Williamson, Marianne

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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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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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So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.

J. B. S. Haldane

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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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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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

Everson, Ray D.

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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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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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

Brown, Les

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Bunche, Ralph

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Saunders, Richard

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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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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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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Horton, Doug

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

Hyman Rickover

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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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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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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