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

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

If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he would make a fortune.

Niblack, Griff

People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

Pound, Ezra

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Their acquisition obligates each man in some way to change his life, even if it is only his inner life. They demand to be stood for. They dictate where a man must concentrate his vision. They determine his moral and intellectual priorities. They provide him with allies and make him enemies. In short, ideas impose an interest in their ultimate fate which goes far beyond the realm of the merely reasonable.

Decter, Midge

When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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

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The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Canetti, Elias

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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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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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.

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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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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 won't work unless you do.

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Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Frost, Robert

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

Koysis, Ted

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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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

Hugo, Victor

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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 very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are.

Fitzgerald, Penelope

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

Rorty, Richard

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Avery, Milton

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The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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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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You look at any giant corporation, and I mean the biggies, and they all started with a guy with an idea, doing it well.

Robbins, Irvine

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Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell