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

If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he would make a fortune.

Niblack, Griff

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Walter Bagehot

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

John Steinbeck

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.

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

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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

Everson, Ray D.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Their acquisition obligates each man in some way to change his life, even if it is only his inner life. They demand to be stood for. They dictate where a man must concentrate his vision. They determine his moral and intellectual priorities. They provide him with allies and make him enemies. In short, ideas impose an interest in their ultimate fate which goes far beyond the realm of the merely reasonable.

Decter, Midge

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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

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A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!

Brown, Les

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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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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

Hortense Calisher

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

Koysis, Ted

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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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Many ideas are good for a limited time -- not forever.

Townsend, Robert

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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

P. B. Medawar

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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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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Anatole France

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

Hodges, Job E.

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Canetti, Elias

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Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.

Harris, Sidney J.

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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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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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

Bridgman, P. W.