Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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.

Best Quotes about Ideas

An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

John Steinbeck

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Rorty, Richard

An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Avery, Milton

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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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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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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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But how shall I get ideas? Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind -- Act!

Marden, Orison Swett

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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Horton, Doug

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

Bridgman, P. W.

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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

James, William

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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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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

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

Jim Hightower

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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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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.

Trotsky, Leon

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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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The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Pauling, Linus

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Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.

Brande, Dorothea

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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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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur