Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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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Best Quotes about Ideas

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It first appeared like a crazy idea. It turned out he had a great idea.

Munro, J. Richard

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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

3.

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

William O. Douglas

4.

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

5.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

6.

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

Frost, Robert

7.

Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

8.

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

Horton, Doug

9.

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

Maritain, Jacques

10.

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

Brande, Dorothea

11.

Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

12.

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

13.

Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

14.

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

15.

When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

16.

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

17.

Mere words are cheap and plenty enough, but ideas that rouse and set multitudes thinking come as gold for the mines.

Penny, A. Owen

18.

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

19.

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

Rostand, Jean

20.

Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

21.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Walter Bagehot

22.

The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

23.

A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

24.

What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

25.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

26.

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

Alfred North Whitehead

27.

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

Chartier, Alain

28.

If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it.

Kettering, Charles F.

29.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

30.

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

31.

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

32.

Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

33.

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

Brown, Les

34.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

35.

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

P. B. Medawar

36.

Not the one who has many ideas, but the one who has a single conviction may become a great person.

Cotvos

37.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

38.

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

Marquis, Don

39.

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

Williamson, Marianne

40.

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

Jim Hightower

41.

Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

42.

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

Picasso, Pablo

43.

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

Canetti, Elias

44.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

46.

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

47.

An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

48.

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

49.

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

50.

Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.

Howard Aiken