Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Rickover, Hyman G.

Best Quotes about Ideas

Ideas won't work unless you do.

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

P. B. Medawar

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

Horton, Doug

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

Emile Chartier

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

Kettering, Charles F.

The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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

Brown, Les

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

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

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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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There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

Bridgman, P. W.

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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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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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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

Hugo, Victor

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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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

Sutton, Percy

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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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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man. --

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 handsome parson is fit for nothing but ti put ideas into the young woman's heads.

Judith Brocklehurst

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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 control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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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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Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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

Pauling, Linus

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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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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

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

Alfred North Whitehead

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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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What you need is an idea.