Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Not the one who has many ideas, but the one who has a single conviction may become a great person.

- Cotvos

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

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

Rorty, Richard

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Jim Hightower

It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.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

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

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.

Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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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 discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

Anatole France

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

Avery, Milton

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

18.

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

Townsend, Robert

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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.

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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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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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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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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

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Victor Hugo

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

Saunders, Richard

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

Sutton, Percy

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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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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

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

Chartier, Alain

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

Frost, Robert

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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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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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There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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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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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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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

Mann, Thomas

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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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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.