Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Judith Brocklehurst

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

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

Canetti, Elias

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

It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.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

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

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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.

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

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 idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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

Saunders, Richard

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Everson, Ray D.

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

Chartier, Alain

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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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An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.

Marquis, Don

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

Rorty, Richard

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

Horton, Doug

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

Frost, Robert

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

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Hugo, Victor

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Hector Berlioz

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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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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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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

Emile Chartier

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A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank.

Berry, John

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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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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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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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Not the one who has many ideas, but the one who has a single conviction may become a great person.

Cotvos

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

Anatole France

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To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

H. L. Mencken

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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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Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

Eliot, George

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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