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

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Victor Hugo

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

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

Alfred North Whitehead

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Everson, Ray D.

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

Chartier, Alain

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

Ernst, Morris L.

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

Anatole France

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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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.

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

Bunche, Ralph

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It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are.

Fitzgerald, Penelope

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

Rostand, Jean

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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 the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

Lynch, David

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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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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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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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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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.

Einstein, Albert

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

Avery, Milton

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

John Cage

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A new idea is like a child. It's easier to conceive than to deliver.

Koysis, Ted

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To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

H. L. Mencken

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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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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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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