Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

- Cameron, Julie

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

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

Maritain, Jacques

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

Block, Henry

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

Hill, Napoleon

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

Hector Berlioz

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

Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: (1) It's completely impossible. (2) It's possible, but it's not worth doing. (3) I said it was a good idea all along.

Clarke, Arthur C.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.

Williamson, Marianne

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The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting.

Nelson, George

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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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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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The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.

William O. Douglas

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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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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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Chartier, Alain

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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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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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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.

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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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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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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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Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

Hugo, Victor

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A crank is someone with a new idea -- until it catches on.

Twain, Mark

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

Lynch, David

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Once I thought ideas were exceptions not the rule. That is not so. Ideas are so plentiful that they ride by on air. You've only to reach out and snatch one...

Mckeun, Rod

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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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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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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first.

Hodges, Job E.

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