Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Chartier, Alain

Best Quotes about Ideas

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

Marquis, Don

A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Sutton, Percy

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

Mere words are cheap and plenty enough, but ideas that rouse and set multitudes thinking come as gold for the mines.

Penny, A. Owen

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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

Koysis, Ted

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Townsend, Robert

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There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than politicians think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas... that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think.

Foucault, Michel

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Hugo, Victor

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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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

Victor Hugo

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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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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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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

Alfred North Whitehead

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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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Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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Think for thyself one good idea, but known to be thine own, is better than a thousand gleaned from fields by others sown.

Wilson, Alexander

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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.

40.

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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It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

Canetti, Elias

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Rohn, Jim

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I'm not impressed with the power of a corporate president. I am impressed with the power of ideas.