Motivational Quotes

Ideas

An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.

- Marquis, Don

Best Quotes about Ideas

Ideas lose themselves as quickly as quail, and one must wing them the minute they rise out of the grass, or they are gone.

Kennedy, Thomas F.

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

Sutton, Percy

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

Pound, Ezra

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Koysis, Ted

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

John Cage

An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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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

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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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Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

Hyman Rickover

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

Victor Hugo

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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

Edison, Thomas A.

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In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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

Hodges, Job E.

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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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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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A handsome parson is fit for nothing but ti put ideas into the young woman's heads.

Judith Brocklehurst

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Bunche, Ralph

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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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

Lynch, David

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

Townsend, Robert