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

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

Emile Chartier

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

Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something.

Simpson, E. L.

Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Marquis, Don

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

John Cage

Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.

Ernst, Morris L.

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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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In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations. Then someone got the idea that there were greater sources of supply deeper down. A well was drilled five thousand feet deep. The result? A gusher. Too many of us operate on the surface. We never go deep enough to find supernatural resources. The result is, we never operate at our best. More time and investment is involved to go deep but a gusher will pay off.

Montapert, Alfred A.

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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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

Avery, Milton

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People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

Pound, Ezra

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

Sutton, Percy

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

Brande, Dorothea

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He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Jim Hightower

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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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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The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?

Carnegie, Dale

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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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Not the one who has many ideas, but the one who has a single conviction may become a great person.

Cotvos

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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank.

Berry, John

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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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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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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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It first appeared like a crazy idea. It turned out he had a great idea.

Munro, J. Richard

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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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Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.

Horton, Doug

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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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Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Rohn, Jim

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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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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

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