Motivational Quotes

Ideas

When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

- Kupferberg, Tuli

Best Quotes about Ideas

I'm not impressed with the power of a corporate president. I am impressed with the power of ideas.

Mason, Ken

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

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

Rostand, Jean

He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

John Steinbeck

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

William O. Douglas

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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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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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.

Lynch, David

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Emile Chartier

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Horton, Doug

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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

Anatole France

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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A crank is someone with a new idea -- until it catches on.

Twain, Mark

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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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 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 won't work unless you do.

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

Rorty, Richard

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

Bunche, Ralph

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If you have the same ideas as everybody else but have them one week earlier than everyone else then you will be hailed as a visionary. But if you have them five years earlier you will be named a lunatic.

Jones, Barry

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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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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Mann, Thomas

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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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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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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.