Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Schopenhauer, Arthur

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

P. B. Medawar

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Nelson, George

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Marquis, Don

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

Eliot, George

Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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

Twain, Mark

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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easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.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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When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Canetti, Elias

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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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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

Mann, Thomas

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

Saunders, Richard

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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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There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

Bridgman, P. W.

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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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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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He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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

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

Trotsky, Leon

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Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

Jim Hightower

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

Chartier, Alain

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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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

Avery, Milton

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You look at any giant corporation, and I mean the biggies, and they all started with a guy with an idea, doing it well.

Robbins, Irvine

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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

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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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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.

Ernst, Morris L.

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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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An idea is the only level which moves the world.