Motivational Quotes

Ideas

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

- Caird, Mona

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.

Block, Henry

A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank.

Berry, John

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

A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.

Trotsky, Leon

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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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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Chartier, Alain

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

Munro, J. Richard

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Judith Brocklehurst

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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 fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.

Ernst, Morris L.

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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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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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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People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

Pound, Ezra

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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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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Horton, Doug

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

Mann, Thomas

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

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An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

Picasso, Pablo

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al