Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Rostand, Jean

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

P. B. Medawar

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

Brown, Les

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

Hector Berlioz

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

Munro, J. Richard

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Einstein, Albert

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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 first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

James, William

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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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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 like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

John Steinbeck

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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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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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Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank.

Berry, John

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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A crank is someone with a new idea -- until it catches on.

Twain, Mark

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he would make a fortune.

Niblack, Griff

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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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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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

Saunders, Richard

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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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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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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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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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If you have the same ideas as everybody else but have them one week earlier than everyone else then you will be hailed as a visionary. But if you have them five years earlier you will be named a lunatic.

Jones, Barry

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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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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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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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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.