Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Nelson, George

Best Quotes about Ideas

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

It's a pretty good idea to be of good cheer but not all the time. Just at the most unexpected times.

An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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

Horton, Doug

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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

Block, Henry

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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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If you have the same ideas as everybody else but have them one week earlier than everyone else then you will be hailed as a visionary. But if you have them five years earlier you will be named a lunatic.

Jones, Barry

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You look at any giant corporation, and I mean the biggies, and they all started with a guy with an idea, doing it well.

Robbins, Irvine

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

Williamson, Marianne

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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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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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The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Pauling, Linus

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

Mann, Thomas

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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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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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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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

Rostand, Jean

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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

Georgia O'Keeffe

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

Ernst, Morris L.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?

Carnegie, Dale

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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you only have one.

Chartier, Alain

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