Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

Best Quotes about Ideas

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

John Cage

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

Rorty, Richard

Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

Jim Hightower

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

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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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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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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If you pray for only one thing, .let it be for an idea.

Sutton, Percy

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

Victor Hugo

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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.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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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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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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

Block, Henry

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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

Avery, Milton

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

Marquis, Don

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

Williamson, Marianne

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

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

Hubbard, Elbert

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It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are.

Fitzgerald, Penelope

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Maritain, Jacques

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

Butler, Samuel