Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Alfred North Whitehead

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

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

James, William

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

Maritain, Jacques

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Ernst, Morris L.

If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Emile Chartier

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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It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

Canetti, Elias

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

Everson, Ray D.

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Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!

Brown, Les

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

Saunders, Richard

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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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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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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

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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Victor Hugo

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

Rohn, Jim

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People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

Pound, Ezra

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We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.

Block, Henry

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

Horton, Doug

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Rorty, Richard

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Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.

Howard Aiken

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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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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

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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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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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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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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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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.

Rostand, Jean

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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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Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first.

Hodges, Job E.

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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