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

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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

Hyman Rickover

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.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

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

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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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.

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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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A handsome parson is fit for nothing but ti put ideas into the young woman's heads.

Judith Brocklehurst

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If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he would make a fortune.

Niblack, Griff

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There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than politicians think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas... that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think.

Foucault, Michel

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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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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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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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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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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

Canetti, Elias

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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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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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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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Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Their acquisition obligates each man in some way to change his life, even if it is only his inner life. They demand to be stood for. They dictate where a man must concentrate his vision. They determine his moral and intellectual priorities. They provide him with allies and make him enemies. In short, ideas impose an interest in their ultimate fate which goes far beyond the realm of the merely reasonable.

Decter, Midge

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

Rorty, Richard

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An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.

Marquis, Don

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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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So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.

J. B. S. Haldane

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

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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It first appeared like a crazy idea. It turned out he had a great idea.

Munro, J. Richard