Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

Best Quotes about Ideas

If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

Mann, Thomas

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

Hugo, Victor

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

Edison, Thomas A.

Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Rohn, Jim

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

Jim Hightower

If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he would make a fortune.

Niblack, Griff

Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?

Carnegie, Dale

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The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

Bragg, Sir 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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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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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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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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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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If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Everson, Ray D.

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

Bunche, Ralph

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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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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Judith Brocklehurst

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Horton, Doug

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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Hortense Calisher

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man may aspire, and yet be quite content until it is time to raise; and both flying and resting are but parts of one contentment. The very fruit of the gospel is aspiration. It is to the heart what spring is to the earth, making every root, and bud, and bough desire to be more. -

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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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