Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Ideas move fast when their time comes.

- Heilbrun, Carolyn

Best Quotes about Ideas

The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.

Lynch, David

Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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

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

Koysis, Ted

An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Saunders, Richard

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

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Pauling, Linus

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

Chartier, Alain

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

Marquis, Don

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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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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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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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

Emile Chartier

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: (1) It's completely impossible. (2) It's possible, but it's not worth doing. (3) I said it was a good idea all along.

Clarke, Arthur C.

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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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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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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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

Hugo, Victor

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A handsome parson is fit for nothing but ti put ideas into the young woman's heads.

Judith Brocklehurst

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It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are.

Fitzgerald, Penelope

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

Hugo, Victor

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

Sutton, Percy

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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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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 great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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

Everson, Ray D.

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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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So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.

J. B. S. Haldane

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There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

Bridgman, P. W.

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Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Horton, Doug