Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Ideas move fast when their time comes.

- Heilbrun, Carolyn

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Berry, John

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

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

Ideas lose themselves as quickly as quail, and one must wing them the minute they rise out of the grass, or they are gone.

Kennedy, Thomas F.

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.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

Ideas won't work unless you do.

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

Hortense Calisher

Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

Twain, Mark

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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

Jim Hightower

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The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Hugo, Victor

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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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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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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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Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!

Brown, Les

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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

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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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The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

Bragg, Sir William

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Saunders, Richard

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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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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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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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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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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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

Anatole France

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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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It's a pretty good idea to be of good cheer but not all the time. Just at the most unexpected times.

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A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Rorty, Richard

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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

Samuel Goldwyn