Motivational Quotes

Ideas

When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

- Kupferberg, Tuli

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

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

An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.

Marquis, Don

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

Hugo, Victor

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

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

Hodges, Job E.

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

Hortense Calisher

We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.

Block, Henry

Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea.

Saunders, Richard

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

Mason, Ken

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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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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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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

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

William O. Douglas

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Everson, Ray D.

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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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I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

Georgia O'Keeffe

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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

John Steinbeck

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Go out and buy yourself a five-cent pencil and a ten-cent notebook and begin to write down some million-dollar ideas for yourself.

Grinde, Bob

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Pound, Ezra

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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 are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Jim Hightower

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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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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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A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank.

Berry, John

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur