Motivational Quotes

Ideas

The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Ideas

Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.

Emile Chartier

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

Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

Pound, Ezra

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

Judith Brocklehurst

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

Hugo, Victor

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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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A crank is someone with a new idea -- until it catches on.

Twain, Mark

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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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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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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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

Hortense Calisher

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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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Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea.

Saunders, Richard

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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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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

Everson, Ray D.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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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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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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Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.

Howard Aiken

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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Hyman Rickover

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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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

Ernst, Morris L.

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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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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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