Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Trotsky, Leon

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

John Steinbeck

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

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

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Rohn, Jim

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

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Marquis, Don

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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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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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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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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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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

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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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A new idea is like a child. It's easier to conceive than to deliver.

Koysis, Ted

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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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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Hugo, Victor

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I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

Georgia O'Keeffe

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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

Hector Berlioz

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To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

H. L. Mencken

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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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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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

Rorty, Richard

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

Pauling, Linus

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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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

Horton, Doug

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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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

Eliot, George

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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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Once I thought ideas were exceptions not the rule. That is not so. Ideas are so plentiful that they ride by on air. You've only to reach out and snatch one...

Mckeun, Rod

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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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Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first.

Hodges, Job E.

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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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A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

Proust, Marcel

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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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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.

Carl Schurz