Motivational Quotes

Ideas

They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Ideas

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Rohn, Jim

The point, simply, is that we are doing more rediscovering these days than discovering coming anew upon truths that ignorant people refused to examine, over the centuries, because the wise people who held custody of the fundamental truths of nature were unpopular.

Williamson, John

Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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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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Go out and buy yourself a five-cent pencil and a ten-cent notebook and begin to write down some million-dollar ideas for yourself.

Grinde, Bob

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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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A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank.

Berry, John

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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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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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This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

Hortense Calisher

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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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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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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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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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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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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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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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