Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

- Gourmont, Remy De

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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

Avery, Milton

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Hugo, Victor

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

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

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

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

Rorty, Richard

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

Brown, Les

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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

Eliot, George

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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

Anatole France

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

Sutton, Percy

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Frost, Robert

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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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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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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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Go out and buy yourself a five-cent pencil and a ten-cent notebook and begin to write down some million-dollar ideas for yourself.

Grinde, Bob

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Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.

Dogen

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

Bunche, Ralph

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

John Cage

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A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

Maritain, Jacques

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In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.

Bacon, Francis

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

Hector Berlioz

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

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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli