Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Everything begins with an idea.

- Nightingale, Earl

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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

Saunders, Richard

They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.

Einstein, Albert

In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations. Then someone got the idea that there were greater sources of supply deeper down. A well was drilled five thousand feet deep. The result? A gusher. Too many of us operate on the surface. We never go deep enough to find supernatural resources. The result is, we never operate at our best. More time and investment is involved to go deep but a gusher will pay off.

Montapert, Alfred A.

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

Victor Hugo

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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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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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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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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Such as take lodgings in a head that's to be let unfurnished.

Butler, Samuel

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

Everson, Ray D.

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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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Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

Eliot, George

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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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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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Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Hyman Rickover

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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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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 a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Mann, Thomas

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Williamson, Marianne

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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

Sutton, Percy

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Great people talk about ideas. Small people talk about other people.

Gibson, Tobias S.

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

Avery, Milton

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There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than politicians think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas... that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think.

Foucault, Michel