Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Ideas

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.

Lynch, David

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Howard Aiken

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.

Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting.

Nelson, George

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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

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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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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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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

Mann, Thomas

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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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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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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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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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No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

John Cage

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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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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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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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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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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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An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

Frost, Robert

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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 powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.