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

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

We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man may aspire, and yet be quite content until it is time to raise; and both flying and resting are but parts of one contentment. The very fruit of the gospel is aspiration. It is to the heart what spring is to the earth, making every root, and bud, and bough desire to be more. -

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Butler, Samuel

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

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

Sutton, Percy

Ideas lose themselves as quickly as quail, and one must wing them the minute they rise out of the grass, or they are gone.

Kennedy, Thomas F.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.

Harris, Sidney J.

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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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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 only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.

Emile Chartier

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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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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A crank is someone with a new idea -- until it catches on.

Twain, Mark

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

Bunche, Ralph

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

Ernst, Morris L.

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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

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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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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.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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

Chartier, Alain

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

Avery, Milton

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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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

Nelson, George

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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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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.

Rostand, Jean

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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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

Victor Hugo

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In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations. Then someone got the idea that there were greater sources of supply deeper down. A well was drilled five thousand feet deep. The result? A gusher. Too many of us operate on the surface. We never go deep enough to find supernatural resources. The result is, we never operate at our best. More time and investment is involved to go deep but a gusher will pay off.

Montapert, Alfred A.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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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