Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Rickover, Hyman G.

Best Quotes about Ideas

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.

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

Pauling, Linus

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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.

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

Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Saunders, Richard

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

Everson, Ray D.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Marquis, Don

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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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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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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 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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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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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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

Howard Aiken

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Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.

Carl Schurz

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Such as take lodgings in a head that's to be let unfurnished.

Butler, Samuel

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Rorty, Richard

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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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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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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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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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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

Horton, Doug

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Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

P. B. Medawar