Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Picasso, Pablo

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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

Rostand, Jean

Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.

Howard Aiken

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

Frost, Robert

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

Marquis, Don

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial.

Rorty, Richard

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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

Munro, J. Richard

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Hyman Rickover

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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 greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Sutton, Percy

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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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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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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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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 have the same ideas as everybody else but have them one week earlier than everyone else then you will be hailed as a visionary. But if you have them five years earlier you will be named a lunatic.

Jones, Barry

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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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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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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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Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.

Trotsky, Leon

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

James, William

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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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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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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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Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Horton, Doug