Motivational Quotes

Ideas

An idea is the only level which moves the world.

- Corey, Arthur F.

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Hyman Rickover

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

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

Victor Hugo

Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Maritain, Jacques

Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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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The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Everson, Ray D.

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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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The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?

Carnegie, Dale

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.

Ernst, Morris L.

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Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.

Rivarol, Antoine

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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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

Brande, Dorothea

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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.

Bachelard, Gaston

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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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

James, William

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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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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Proust, Marcel

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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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 way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.

William O. Douglas

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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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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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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The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting.

Nelson, George

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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.