Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Ideas control the world.

- Garfield, James A.

Best Quotes about Ideas

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Marquis, Don

The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting.

Nelson, George

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

Emile Chartier

If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person.

Bunche, Ralph

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

Edison, Thomas A.

Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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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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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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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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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We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man may aspire, and yet be quite content until it is time to raise; and both flying and resting are but parts of one contentment. The very fruit of the gospel is aspiration. It is to the heart what spring is to the earth, making every root, and bud, and bough desire to be more. -

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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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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The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Pauling, Linus

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

John Steinbeck

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A crank is someone with a new idea -- until it catches on.

Twain, Mark

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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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All opening moves were the same, like in chess. You don't have to come up with anything new, there's no point, because you're both after the same thing anyway. The game soon finds its own way and it's only at that point that you need a strategy.

Paolo Giordano

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Block, Henry

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Hodges, Job E.

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Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Bridgman, P. W.

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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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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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Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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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

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Rorty, Richard

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Great ideas originate in the muscles.