Motivational Quotes

Ideas

It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.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

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

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

Saunders, Richard

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.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Marquis, Don

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

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

Horton, Doug

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

Everson, Ray D.

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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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People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

Pound, Ezra

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

Sutton, Percy

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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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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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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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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

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

Munro, J. Richard

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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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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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

Hodges, Job E.

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It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.

Keynes, John Maynard

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If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person.

Bunche, Ralph

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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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

Chartier, Alain

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So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.

Brande, Dorothea

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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

Maritain, Jacques

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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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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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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Ideas won't work unless you do.