Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Such as take lodgings in a head that's to be let unfurnished.

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Ideas

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.

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

Victor Hugo

Such as take lodgings in a head that's to be let unfurnished.

Butler, Samuel

It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.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

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

P. B. Medawar

If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Mason, Ken

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

Saunders, Richard

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

Avery, Milton

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

Mann, Thomas

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

Munro, J. Richard

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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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It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.

Keynes, John Maynard

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.

Lynch, David

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

Chartier, Alain

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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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The world moves, and ideas that were good once are not always good.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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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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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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This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

Hortense Calisher

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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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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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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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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 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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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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