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

Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Marquis, Don

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

Hector Berlioz

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

William O. Douglas

Many ideas are good for a limited time -- not forever.

Townsend, Robert

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

Samuel Goldwyn

Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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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easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.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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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

Mann, Thomas

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

Eliot, George

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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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Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wander whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

Rorty, Richard

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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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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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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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Think for thyself one good idea, but known to be thine own, is better than a thousand gleaned from fields by others sown.

Wilson, Alexander

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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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If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person.

Bunche, Ralph

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

Sutton, Percy

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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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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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A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

Maritain, Jacques

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

Butler, Samuel

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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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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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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 move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.

Keynes, John Maynard

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