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

Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.

Dogen

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

Block, Henry

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.

Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Marquis, Don

The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Munro, J. Richard

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

Avery, Milton

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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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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

Saunders, Richard

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

Walter Bagehot

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Brown, Les

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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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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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It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

Canetti, Elias

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

Trotsky, Leon

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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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If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Pauling, Linus

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

Twain, Mark

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Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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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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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

Bridgman, P. W.

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