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

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

Ernst, Morris L.

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

Hugo, Victor

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

Bunche, Ralph

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Berry, John

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

Hortense Calisher

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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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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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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

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

Saunders, Richard

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It first appeared like a crazy idea. It turned out he had a great idea.

Munro, J. Richard

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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

Townsend, Robert

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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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A crank is someone with a new idea -- until it catches on.

Twain, Mark

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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But how shall I get ideas? Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind -- Act!

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Everson, Ray D.

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The point, simply, is that we are doing more rediscovering these days than discovering coming anew upon truths that ignorant people refused to examine, over the centuries, because the wise people who held custody of the fundamental truths of nature were unpopular.

Williamson, John

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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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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it.

Bach, Richard

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

Butler, Samuel

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The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting.

Nelson, George

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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

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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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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Anatole France

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