Motivational Quotes

Ideas

An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

- Frost, Robert

Best Quotes about Ideas

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

John Steinbeck

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

Eliot, George

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

Hector Berlioz

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

Howard Aiken

Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.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

William O. Douglas

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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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There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

Bridgman, P. W.

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Sutton, Percy

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Saunders, Richard

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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 are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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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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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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 of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.

Keynes, John Maynard

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Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you only have one.

Chartier, Alain

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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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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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

Jim Hightower

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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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

Marquis, Don

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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 new idea is like a child. It's easier to conceive than to deliver.

Koysis, Ted

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North