Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

- Neuharth, Al

Best Quotes about Ideas

I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Everson, Ray D.

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

Alfred North Whitehead

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Hodges, Job E.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Bridgman, P. W.

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

Munro, J. Richard

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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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Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.

Carl Schurz

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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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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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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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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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Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.

Howard Aiken

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The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.

William O. Douglas

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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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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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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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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Not the one who has many ideas, but the one who has a single conviction may become a great person.

Cotvos

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An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

Frost, Robert

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

Saunders, Richard

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

Hortense Calisher

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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

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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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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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Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.

Harris, Sidney J.

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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

Proust, Marcel

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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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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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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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

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

Mann, Thomas

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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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Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

Maritain, Jacques