Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Ideas... they have the power

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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

Sutton, Percy

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

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

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

Pound, Ezra

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

Nelson, George

Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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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

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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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

Brande, Dorothea

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They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.

Einstein, Albert

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Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.

Howard Aiken

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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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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

Horton, Doug

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Lynch, David

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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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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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When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.

Williamson, Marianne

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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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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

Mann, Thomas

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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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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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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Block, Henry

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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