Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Horton, Doug

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

Williamson, Marianne

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

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

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

Lynch, David

If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he would make a fortune.

Niblack, Griff

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.

Rostand, Jean

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

Bunche, Ralph

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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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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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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easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.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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No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.

Dogen

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

Anatole France

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

Avery, Milton

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.

Howard Aiken

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

John Cage

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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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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

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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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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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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it.

Bach, Richard

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

Munro, J. Richard

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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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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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

Jim Hightower

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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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Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Their acquisition obligates each man in some way to change his life, even if it is only his inner life. They demand to be stood for. They dictate where a man must concentrate his vision. They determine his moral and intellectual priorities. They provide him with allies and make him enemies. In short, ideas impose an interest in their ultimate fate which goes far beyond the realm of the merely reasonable.

Decter, Midge

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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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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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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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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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This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

Hortense Calisher

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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Sutton, Percy

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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 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