Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first.

- Hodges, Job E.

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

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

James, William

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

Bridgman, P. W.

It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

Canetti, Elias

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

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.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Nelson, George

The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

Alfred North Whitehead

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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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Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first.

Hodges, Job E.

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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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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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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

Georgia O'Keeffe

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

Everson, Ray D.

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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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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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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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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Marquis, Don

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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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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

Berry, John

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

Rorty, Richard

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Chartier, Alain

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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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Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courageous patience.

Rickover, Hyman G.

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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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

Frost, Robert

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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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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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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.