Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Lynch, David

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Pound, Ezra

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

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

Everson, Ray D.

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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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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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

John Cage

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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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

Trotsky, Leon

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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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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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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Such as take lodgings in a head that's to be let unfurnished.

Butler, Samuel

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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 discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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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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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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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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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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

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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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Ideas won't work unless you do.

33.

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

Brown, Les

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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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Great people talk about ideas. Small people talk about other people.

Gibson, Tobias S.

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Mere words are cheap and plenty enough, but ideas that rouse and set multitudes thinking come as gold for the mines.

Penny, A. Owen

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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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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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

Sutton, Percy

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

Rorty, Richard

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Not the one who has many ideas, but the one who has a single conviction may become a great person.

Cotvos

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

Rostand, Jean

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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