Motivational Quotes

Ideas

When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

- Kupferberg, Tuli

Best Quotes about Ideas

The world moves, and ideas that were good once are not always good.

It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.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

People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

Pound, Ezra

In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations. Then someone got the idea that there were greater sources of supply deeper down. A well was drilled five thousand feet deep. The result? A gusher. Too many of us operate on the surface. We never go deep enough to find supernatural resources. The result is, we never operate at our best. More time and investment is involved to go deep but a gusher will pay off.

Montapert, Alfred A.

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

Everson, Ray D.

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

Howard Aiken

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Mason, Ken

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

Emile Chartier

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A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Hortense Calisher

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It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

Canetti, Elias

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first.

Hodges, Job E.

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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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The point, simply, is that we are doing more rediscovering these days than discovering coming anew upon truths that ignorant people refused to examine, over the centuries, because the wise people who held custody of the fundamental truths of nature were unpopular.

Williamson, John

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

Lynch, David

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There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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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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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 composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

Hector Berlioz

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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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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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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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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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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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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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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

Alfred North Whitehead

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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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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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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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