Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Rostand, Jean

Best Quotes about Ideas

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Frost, Robert

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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

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

Avery, Milton

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

Judith Brocklehurst

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

Rivarol, Antoine

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

John Cage

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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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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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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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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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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Go out and buy yourself a five-cent pencil and a ten-cent notebook and begin to write down some million-dollar ideas for yourself.

Grinde, Bob

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

Horton, Doug

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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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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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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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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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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Walter Bagehot

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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Alfred North Whitehead

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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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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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Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.

Dogen

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So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Hortense Calisher

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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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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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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Munro, J. Richard

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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

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Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first.

Hodges, Job E.

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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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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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In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations. Then someone got the idea that there were greater sources of supply deeper down. A well was drilled five thousand feet deep. The result? A gusher. Too many of us operate on the surface. We never go deep enough to find supernatural resources. The result is, we never operate at our best. More time and investment is involved to go deep but a gusher will pay off.

Montapert, Alfred A.

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

Sutton, Percy

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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