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

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Walter Bagehot

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

Proust, Marcel

Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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

Hortense Calisher

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Everson, Ray D.

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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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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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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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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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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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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

Hugo, Victor

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

Anatole France

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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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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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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 won't work unless you do.

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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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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 refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

Bachelard, Gaston

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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.

Emile Chartier

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

Frost, Robert

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

Bunche, Ralph

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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 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 idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.