Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Ideas

The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting.

Nelson, George

Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.

Harris, Sidney J.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Victor Hugo

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

Canetti, Elias

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

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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

Munro, J. Richard

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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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A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Chartier, Alain

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

Hyman Rickover

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

Avery, Milton

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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

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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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Mere words are cheap and plenty enough, but ideas that rouse and set multitudes thinking come as gold for the mines.

Penny, A. Owen

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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 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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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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A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Koysis, Ted

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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Townsend, Robert

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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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It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.

Keynes, John Maynard

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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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Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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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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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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

Bunche, Ralph

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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.