Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Ideas

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Keynes, John Maynard

It's a pretty good idea to be of good cheer but not all the time. Just at the most unexpected times.

Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Munro, J. Richard

It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.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

Gourmont, Remy De

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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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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.

Bacon, Francis

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

Lynch, David

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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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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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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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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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Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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 a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is seldom explicit. They are utilitarian and political, the instruments of smooth-running government.

Lewis, Wyndham

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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 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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So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Avery, Milton

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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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Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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

Bunche, Ralph

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

Hyman Rickover

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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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Mere words are cheap and plenty enough, but ideas that rouse and set multitudes thinking come as gold for the mines.

Penny, A. Owen

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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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Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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

Townsend, Robert

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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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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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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.