Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Ideas are the roots of creation.

- Dimnet, Ernest

Best Quotes about Ideas

It's a pretty good idea to be of good cheer but not all the time. Just at the most unexpected times.

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Avery, Milton

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

Sutton, Percy

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

Ideas won't work unless you do.

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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.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Saunders, Richard

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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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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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Such as take lodgings in a head that's to be let unfurnished.

Butler, Samuel

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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

Maritain, Jacques

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

Horton, Doug

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

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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A crank is someone with a new idea -- until it catches on.

Twain, Mark

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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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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.

Emile Chartier

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

Cotvos

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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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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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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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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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But how shall I get ideas? Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind -- Act!

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Jim Hightower

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

Harris, Sidney J.