Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Everson, Ray D.

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is seldom explicit. They are utilitarian and political, the instruments of smooth-running government.

Lewis, Wyndham

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

Sutton, Percy

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

Munro, J. Richard

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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 long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Horton, Doug

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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Walter Bagehot

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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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

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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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

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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

Ernst, Morris L.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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

Canetti, Elias

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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