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easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.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

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Eliot, George

Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.

Ernst, Morris L.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Canetti, Elias

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

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

Hyman Rickover

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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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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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easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.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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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

Alfred North Whitehead

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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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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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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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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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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

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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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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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

Victor Hugo

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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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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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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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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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

Everson, Ray D.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Avery, Milton

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Bunche, Ralph

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Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something.

Simpson, E. L.

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

Anatole France

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