Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Sutton, Percy

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Avery, Milton

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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

John Cage

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: (1) It's completely impossible. (2) It's possible, but it's not worth doing. (3) I said it was a good idea all along.

Clarke, Arthur C.

When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.

Williamson, Marianne

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I'm not impressed with the power of a corporate president. I am impressed with the power of ideas.

Mason, Ken

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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Maritain, Jacques

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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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The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Pauling, Linus

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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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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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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Alfred North Whitehead

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It's a pretty good idea to be of good cheer but not all the time. Just at the most unexpected times.

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

Mann, Thomas

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

Rorty, Richard

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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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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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The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?

Carnegie, Dale

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

Horton, Doug

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

Everson, Ray D.

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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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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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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Anatole France

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There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than politicians think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas... that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think.

Foucault, Michel

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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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

Townsend, Robert

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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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What you need is an idea.