Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Everything begins with an idea.

- Nightingale, Earl

Best Quotes about Ideas

An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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

Munro, J. Richard

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

John Cage

Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Many ideas are good for a limited time -- not forever.

Townsend, Robert

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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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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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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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

Butler, Samuel

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The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial.

Rorty, Richard

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Hector Berlioz

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

Avery, Milton

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Chartier, Alain

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

Anatole France

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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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It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.

Oech, Roger Von

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wander whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Sutton, Percy

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Ideas won't work unless you do.

43.

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

Koysis, Ted

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Eliot, George

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

Rivarol, Antoine