Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- John Steinbeck

Best Quotes about Ideas

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Simpson, E. L.

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

Hortense Calisher

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

Everson, Ray D.

They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.

Einstein, Albert

When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.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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There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man. --

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Avery, Milton

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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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Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.

Horton, Doug

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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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A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

Maritain, Jacques

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

Jim Hightower

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The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial.

Rorty, Richard

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person.

Bunche, Ralph

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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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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Victor Hugo

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Pound, Ezra

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A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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