Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Ideas are the roots of creation.

- Dimnet, Ernest

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Anatole France

An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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

P. B. Medawar

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

Cotvos

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

Mann, Thomas

Ideas won't work unless you do.

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

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

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Ernst, Morris L.

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

Trotsky, Leon

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations. Then someone got the idea that there were greater sources of supply deeper down. A well was drilled five thousand feet deep. The result? A gusher. Too many of us operate on the surface. We never go deep enough to find supernatural resources. The result is, we never operate at our best. More time and investment is involved to go deep but a gusher will pay off.

Montapert, Alfred A.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hyman Rickover

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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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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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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

Hugo, Victor

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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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

Horton, Doug

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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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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

Eliot, George

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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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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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

Williamson, Marianne

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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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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Koysis, Ted

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes