Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Ideas move fast when their time comes.

- Heilbrun, Carolyn

Best Quotes about Ideas

1.

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

Townsend, Robert

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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easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.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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Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Rohn, Jim

4.

It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

5.

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

Emile Chartier

6.

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

7.

To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.

Rostand, Jean

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I'm not impressed with the power of a corporate president. I am impressed with the power of ideas.

Mason, Ken

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

Ernst, Morris L.

11.

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

Sutton, Percy

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

William O. Douglas

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

Jim Hightower

17.

No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.

Sir Frederick G. Banting

18.

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Pauling, Linus

19.

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

Victor Hugo

20.

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

John Cage

22.

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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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

24.

When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

25.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

26.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

27.

You have to hatch ideas -- and then hitch them.

Everson, Ray D.

28.

A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

Proust, Marcel

29.

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

Hortense Calisher

30.

Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

31.

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

32.

The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

33.

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

Nelson, George

34.

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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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

36.

Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

37.

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

Anatole France

38.

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

Bachelard, Gaston

39.

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