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

Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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

Hortense Calisher

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.

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

Edison, Thomas A.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

John Steinbeck

Great people talk about ideas. Small people talk about other people.

Gibson, Tobias S.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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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easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.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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There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

Bridgman, P. W.

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

Anatole France

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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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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man. --

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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 are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.

Rivarol, Antoine

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So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.

J. B. S. Haldane

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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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The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.

William O. Douglas

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

Horton, Doug

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Avery, Milton

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

Chartier, Alain

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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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

Hyman Rickover

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

Canetti, Elias

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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Jim Hightower

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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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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.

Bachelard, Gaston