Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Keynes, John Maynard

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Avery, Milton

An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

Picasso, Pablo

The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.

William O. Douglas

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

Einstein, Albert

Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

James, William

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Everson, Ray D.

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All opening moves were the same, like in chess. You don't have to come up with anything new, there's no point, because you're both after the same thing anyway. The game soon finds its own way and it's only at that point that you need a strategy.

Paolo Giordano

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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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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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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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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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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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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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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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 are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Brown, Les

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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

Pauling, Linus

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

Bridgman, P. W.

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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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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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Ideas lose themselves as quickly as quail, and one must wing them the minute they rise out of the grass, or they are gone.

Kennedy, Thomas F.

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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.

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Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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You look at any giant corporation, and I mean the biggies, and they all started with a guy with an idea, doing it well.

Robbins, Irvine

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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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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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Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.

Trotsky, Leon

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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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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

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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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In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.

Bacon, Francis

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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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