Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

Best Quotes about Ideas

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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

2.

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

Block, Henry

3.

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

Pound, Ezra

4.

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

5.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

6.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

7.

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

8.

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

Canetti, Elias

9.

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

Hector Berlioz

10.

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

Hill, Napoleon

11.

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

Horton, Doug

12.

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

13.

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

14.

Once I thought ideas were exceptions not the rule. That is not so. Ideas are so plentiful that they ride by on air. You've only to reach out and snatch one...

Mckeun, Rod

15.

An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

16.

The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting.

Nelson, George

17.

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

18.

Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

19.

The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.

William O. Douglas

20.

Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

21.

Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

22.

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

Bunche, Ralph

23.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

24.

What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

25.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

26.

The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

27.

If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he would make a fortune.

Niblack, Griff

28.

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

Anatole France

29.

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

Hortense Calisher

30.

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

Saunders, Richard

31.

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

32.

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

Avery, Milton

33.

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.

34.

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

35.

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

Eliot, George

36.

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

Hyman Rickover

37.

Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

38.

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

39.

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

40.

A handsome parson is fit for nothing but ti put ideas into the young woman's heads.

Judith Brocklehurst

41.

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

John Cage

42.

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

Berry, John

43.

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

44.

A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

James, William

45.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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