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easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bunche, Ralph

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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Mere words are cheap and plenty enough, but ideas that rouse and set multitudes thinking come as gold for the mines.

Penny, A. Owen

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Hortense Calisher

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

Frost, Robert

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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

Gide, Andre

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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It's a pretty good idea to be of good cheer but not all the time. Just at the most unexpected times.

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

Pauling, Linus

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

Proust, Marcel

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Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank.

Berry, John

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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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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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Einstein, Albert

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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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

Horton, Doug

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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

H. L. Mencken

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

Marquis, Don

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

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

Block, Henry