Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

Best Quotes about Ideas

The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Avery, Milton

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

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

Emile Chartier

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Chartier, Alain

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Frost, Robert

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.

Brande, Dorothea

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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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

Nelson, George

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Rorty, Richard

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

Marquis, Don

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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Walter Bagehot

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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

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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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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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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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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

Hortense Calisher

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.