Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Rorty, Richard

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Pound, Ezra

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

It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.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

I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

Samuel Goldwyn

This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

Hortense Calisher

The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.

William O. Douglas

Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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

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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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.

Block, Henry

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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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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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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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It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

Gide, Andre

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

Frost, Robert

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

Everson, Ray D.

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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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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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

Horton, Doug

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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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

Marquis, Don

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Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

Eliot, George

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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

Hyman Rickover

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Saunders, Richard

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

Chartier, Alain

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So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.

J. B. S. Haldane

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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

Hugo, Victor

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron