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 get across an idea, wrap it up in a person.

Bunche, Ralph

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

Ideas won't work unless you do.

It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.

Keynes, John Maynard

Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

Not the one who has many ideas, but the one who has a single conviction may become a great person.

Cotvos

Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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'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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I'm not impressed with the power of a corporate president. I am impressed with the power of ideas.

Mason, Ken

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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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A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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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

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Jim Hightower

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

Block, Henry

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

Berry, John

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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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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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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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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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Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something.

Simpson, E. L.

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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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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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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

Sutton, Percy

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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Anatole France

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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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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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Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.

Ernst, Morris L.

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A handsome parson is fit for nothing but ti put ideas into the young woman's heads.

Judith Brocklehurst

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A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

Maritain, Jacques

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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 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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It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell