Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

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

Proust, Marcel

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Twain, Mark

Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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

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

Koysis, Ted

All opening moves were the same, like in chess. You don't have to come up with anything new, there's no point, because you're both after the same thing anyway. The game soon finds its own way and it's only at that point that you need a strategy.

Paolo Giordano

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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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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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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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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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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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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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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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Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

Hyman Rickover

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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

James, William

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Munro, J. Richard

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

Frost, Robert

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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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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Emile Chartier

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Avery, Milton

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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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An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.

Block, Henry