Motivational Quotes

Ideas

An idea is the only level which moves the world.

- Corey, Arthur F.

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

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

Koysis, Ted

An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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

Rorty, Richard

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

Williamson, Marianne

The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

P. B. Medawar

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Brande, Dorothea

Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Townsend, Robert

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No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

Proust, Marcel

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

Pound, Ezra

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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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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

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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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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

Hyman Rickover

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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Bunche, Ralph

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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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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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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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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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To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

H. L. Mencken

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

Saunders, Richard

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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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He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Lynch, David

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The world moves, and ideas that were good once are not always good.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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.