Motivational Quotes

Ideas

It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.

- Keynes, John Maynard

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

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

Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!

Brown, Les

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.

Harris, Sidney J.

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

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

Hyman Rickover

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

Nelson, George

Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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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 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

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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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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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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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A new idea is like a child. It's easier to conceive than to deliver.

Koysis, Ted

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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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If you pray for only one thing, .let it be for an idea.

Sutton, Percy

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

Everson, Ray D.

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

Townsend, Robert

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An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it.

Bach, Richard

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Chartier, Alain

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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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The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

P. B. Medawar

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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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It's a pretty good idea to be of good cheer but not all the time. Just at the most unexpected times.

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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

Avery, Milton

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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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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There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

Bridgman, P. W.

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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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

Butler, Samuel

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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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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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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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

Hill, Napoleon