Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Hyman Rickover

Best Quotes about Ideas

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Pauling, Linus

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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.

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

Simpson, E. L.

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

Emile Chartier

An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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

To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.

Rostand, Jean

The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Anatole France

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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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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.

Dogen

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

Canetti, Elias

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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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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Twain, Mark

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When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Hugo, Victor

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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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

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The idea is in my head to put it down is nothing.

Avery, Milton

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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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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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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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Think for thyself one good idea, but known to be thine own, is better than a thousand gleaned from fields by others sown.

Wilson, Alexander

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

John Cage

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Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you only have one.

Chartier, Alain

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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