Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Pound, Ezra

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

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

Rorty, Richard

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

Kettering, Charles F.

Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Howard Aiken

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 human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

P. B. Medawar

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

Williamson, Marianne

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The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!

Brown, Les

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

Jim Hightower

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

Chartier, Alain

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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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You look at any giant corporation, and I mean the biggies, and they all started with a guy with an idea, doing it well.

Robbins, Irvine

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Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Their acquisition obligates each man in some way to change his life, even if it is only his inner life. They demand to be stood for. They dictate where a man must concentrate his vision. They determine his moral and intellectual priorities. They provide him with allies and make him enemies. In short, ideas impose an interest in their ultimate fate which goes far beyond the realm of the merely reasonable.

Decter, Midge

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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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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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

Marquis, Don

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

Mann, Thomas

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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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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Saunders, Richard

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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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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

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The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.

Keynes, John Maynard

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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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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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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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