Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Kettering, Charles F.

When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Chartier, Alain

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

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

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

Marquis, Don

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

Koysis, Ted

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

Nelson, George

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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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

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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

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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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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.

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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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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Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.

Rostand, Jean

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

Hyman Rickover

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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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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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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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In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations. Then someone got the idea that there were greater sources of supply deeper down. A well was drilled five thousand feet deep. The result? A gusher. Too many of us operate on the surface. We never go deep enough to find supernatural resources. The result is, we never operate at our best. More time and investment is involved to go deep but a gusher will pay off.

Montapert, Alfred A.

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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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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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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

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

Anatole France

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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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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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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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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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