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 new idea is like a child. It's easier to conceive than to deliver.

Koysis, Ted

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

The idea is in my head to put it down is nothing.

Avery, Milton

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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Rostand, Jean

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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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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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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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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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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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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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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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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Victor Hugo

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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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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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Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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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

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When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.

Williamson, Marianne

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

P. B. Medawar

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

Eliot, George

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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 great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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

William O. Douglas

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Saunders, Richard

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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Everson, Ray D.

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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.