Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

Best Quotes about Ideas

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Hugo, Victor

Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.

Whitehead, Alfred North

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

John Cage

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Hyman Rickover

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easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.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

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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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

Rorty, Richard

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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it.

Bach, Richard

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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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

Horton, Doug

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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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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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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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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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

Hortense Calisher

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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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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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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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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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Think for thyself one good idea, but known to be thine own, is better than a thousand gleaned from fields by others sown.

Wilson, Alexander

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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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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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A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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

Everson, Ray D.

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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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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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The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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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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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona