Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

- Gourmont, Remy De

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Saunders, Richard

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Jim Hightower

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

Mason, Ken

An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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

Nelson, George

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

James, William

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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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

Emile Chartier

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

Bunche, Ralph

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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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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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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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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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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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To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

H. L. Mencken

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Rorty, Richard

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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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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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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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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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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

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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Marquis, Don

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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