Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Rorty, Richard

It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are.

Fitzgerald, Penelope

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

Brown, Les

Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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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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 worth nothing if it has no champion.

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Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.

Howard Aiken

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Horton, Doug

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Victor Hugo

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

Hortense Calisher

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Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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

Townsend, Robert

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So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.

J. B. S. Haldane

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

Niblack, Griff

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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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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Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.

Ernst, Morris L.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Anatole France

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Trotsky, Leon

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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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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

Avery, Milton

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.

Brande, Dorothea