Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Glasgow, Arnold H.

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Rostand, Jean

The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

P. B. Medawar

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

Frost, Robert

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

An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Emile Chartier

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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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 are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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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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There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man. --

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

Anatole France

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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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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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I'm not impressed with the power of a corporate president. I am impressed with the power of ideas.

Mason, Ken

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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

Trotsky, Leon

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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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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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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

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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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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

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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Marquis, Don

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Ideas... they have the power

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Ideas lose themselves as quickly as quail, and one must wing them the minute they rise out of the grass, or they are gone.