Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Ideas too are a life and a world.

- Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Saunders, Richard

A handsome parson is fit for nothing but ti put ideas into the young woman's heads.

Judith Brocklehurst

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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

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

Horton, Doug

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

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

Howard Aiken

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

Twain, Mark

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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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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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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I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

John Cage

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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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

24.

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

Brown, Les

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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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

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

Marquis, Don

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

Hill, Napoleon

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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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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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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

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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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To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

H. L. Mencken

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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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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

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

Sutton, Percy

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

Townsend, Robert

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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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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something.

Simpson, E. L.

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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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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 get across an idea, wrap it up in a person.

Bunche, Ralph

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

Edison, Thomas A.