Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Ideas too are a life and a world.

- Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Brande, Dorothea

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

You look at any giant corporation, and I mean the biggies, and they all started with a guy with an idea, doing it well.

Robbins, Irvine

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Berry, John

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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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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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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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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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 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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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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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 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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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Marquis, Don

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

Lynch, David

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Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: (1) It's completely impossible. (2) It's possible, but it's not worth doing. (3) I said it was a good idea all along.

Clarke, Arthur C.

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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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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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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

Rorty, Richard

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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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They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.

Einstein, Albert

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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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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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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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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

Samuel Goldwyn

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Anatole France

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

Block, Henry

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

Victor Hugo