Motivational Quotes

Ideas

If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

- Mann, Thomas

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Butler, Samuel

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

The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

P. B. Medawar

It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.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

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Anatole France

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

William O. Douglas

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

Hodges, Job E.

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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

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Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Saunders, Richard

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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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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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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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations. Then someone got the idea that there were greater sources of supply deeper down. A well was drilled five thousand feet deep. The result? A gusher. Too many of us operate on the surface. We never go deep enough to find supernatural resources. The result is, we never operate at our best. More time and investment is involved to go deep but a gusher will pay off.

Montapert, Alfred A.

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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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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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A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

Maritain, Jacques

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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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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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

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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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If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he would make a fortune.

Niblack, Griff

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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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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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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

Rostand, Jean

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Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.

Ernst, Morris L.

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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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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