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

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

You have to hatch ideas -- and then hitch them.

Everson, Ray D.

You look at any giant corporation, and I mean the biggies, and they all started with a guy with an idea, doing it well.

Robbins, Irvine

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

Townsend, Robert

Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

A new idea is like a child. It's easier to conceive than to deliver.

Koysis, Ted

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

Ernst, Morris L.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.

Emile Chartier

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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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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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

Lynch, David

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All opening moves were the same, like in chess. You don't have to come up with anything new, there's no point, because you're both after the same thing anyway. The game soon finds its own way and it's only at that point that you need a strategy.

Paolo Giordano

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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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

Munro, J. Richard

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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'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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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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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

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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 won't work unless you do.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

Anatole France

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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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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

Hugo, Victor

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Hector Berlioz

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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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Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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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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An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

Frost, Robert

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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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Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.