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.

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

Lynch, David

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Walter Bagehot

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

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

Frost, Robert

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.

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Sutton, Percy

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Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wander whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Marquis, Don

17.

Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

Bachelard, Gaston

18.

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

Brande, Dorothea

19.

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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Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea.

Saunders, Richard

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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

22.

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

Maritain, Jacques

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

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

Chartier, Alain

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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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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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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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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

30.

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

Victor Hugo

31.

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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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

34.

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

Hill, Napoleon

36.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

40.

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

Everson, Ray D.

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

Munro, J. Richard

42.

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

Hortense Calisher

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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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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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A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank.

Berry, John

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.