Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

- Gourmont, Remy De

Best Quotes about Ideas

Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

Bachelard, Gaston

The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Anatole France

The idea is in my head to put it down is nothing.

Avery, Milton

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

Chartier, Alain

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Howard Aiken

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

Jim Hightower

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Walter Bagehot

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

John Cage

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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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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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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.

Lynch, David

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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Such as take lodgings in a head that's to be let unfurnished.

Butler, Samuel

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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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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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Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!

Brown, Les

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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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You look at any giant corporation, and I mean the biggies, and they all started with a guy with an idea, doing it well.

Robbins, Irvine

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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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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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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 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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Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Hugo, Victor

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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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The world moves, and ideas that were good once are not always good.

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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 is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

Gide, Andre

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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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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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

Saunders, Richard

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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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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

Hugo, Victor