Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Bachelard, Gaston

3.

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

Hector Berlioz

4.

An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

5.

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

Ernst, Morris L.

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

8.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

9.

Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something.

Simpson, E. L.

10.

An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

11.

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

12.

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

Emile Chartier

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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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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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

18.

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.

19.

Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

20.

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

21.

I'm not impressed with the power of a corporate president. I am impressed with the power of ideas.

Mason, Ken

22.

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

23.

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

Hugo, Victor

24.

We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.

Block, Henry

25.

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

Saunders, Richard

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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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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

28.

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

Sutton, Percy

29.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

30.

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

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

Avery, Milton

33.

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

Koysis, Ted

34.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

36.

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

Walter Bagehot

37.

What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

38.

Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!

Brown, Les

39.

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

40.

Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

41.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

42.

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

Twain, Mark

43.

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

44.

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

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

Hyman Rickover

46.

Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

47.

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