Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Pauling, Linus

Best Quotes about Ideas

A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.

Lynch, David

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

James, William

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

Hyman Rickover

Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Think for thyself one good idea, but known to be thine own, is better than a thousand gleaned from fields by others sown.

Wilson, Alexander

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I'm not impressed with the power of a corporate president. I am impressed with the power of ideas.

Mason, Ken

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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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

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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

Munro, J. Richard

19.

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

Pauling, Linus

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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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 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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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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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

Jim Hightower

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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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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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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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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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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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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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

Saunders, Richard

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

Chartier, Alain

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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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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

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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

Mann, Thomas

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

Niblack, Griff

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

Block, Henry

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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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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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