Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Hector Berlioz

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Frost, Robert

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

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Many ideas are good for a limited time -- not forever.

Townsend, Robert

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

Hortense Calisher

The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.

William O. Douglas

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is seldom explicit. They are utilitarian and political, the instruments of smooth-running government.

Lewis, Wyndham

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There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.

Keynes, John Maynard

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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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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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It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

Canetti, Elias

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Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.

Harris, Sidney J.

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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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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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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

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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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A new idea is like a child. It's easier to conceive than to deliver.

Koysis, Ted

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If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he would make a fortune.

Niblack, Griff

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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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

Saunders, Richard

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

Brande, Dorothea

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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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 the nature of thought to find its way into action.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

Georgia O'Keeffe

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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