Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Ideas too are a life and a world.

- Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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

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

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

Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

Eliot, George

Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.

Dogen

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Hortense Calisher

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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

Bunche, Ralph

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

Einstein, Albert

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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 best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Horton, Doug

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Pauling, Linus

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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 that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.

Trotsky, Leon

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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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Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

Hugo, Victor

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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 idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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

Jim Hightower

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Berry, John

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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona