Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something.

- Simpson, E. L.

Best Quotes about Ideas

Such as take lodgings in a head that's to be let unfurnished.

Butler, Samuel

There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.

Emile Chartier

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

Marquis, Don

An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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

Sutton, Percy

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Frost, Robert

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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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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

Block, Henry

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

Judith Brocklehurst

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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

Brown, Les

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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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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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The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.

Lynch, David

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

Hugo, Victor

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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Eliot, George

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

Twain, Mark

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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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

Everson, Ray D.

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.