Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Hortense Calisher

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Mere words are cheap and plenty enough, but ideas that rouse and set multitudes thinking come as gold for the mines.

Penny, A. Owen

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

Hector Berlioz

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

Hodges, Job E.

Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than politicians think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas... that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think.

Foucault, Michel

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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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 not responsible for the people who believe in it.

Marquis, Don

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It first appeared like a crazy idea. It turned out he had a great idea.

Munro, J. Richard

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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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Go out and buy yourself a five-cent pencil and a ten-cent notebook and begin to write down some million-dollar ideas for yourself.

Grinde, Bob

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

Everson, Ray D.

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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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

Berry, John

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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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Such as take lodgings in a head that's to be let unfurnished.

Butler, Samuel

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Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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