Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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Best Quotes about Ideas

The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.

Lynch, David

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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

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

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Eliot, George

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A handsome parson is fit for nothing but ti put ideas into the young woman's heads.

Judith Brocklehurst

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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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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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

Brown, Les

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There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.

Emile Chartier

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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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

Proust, Marcel

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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Koysis, Ted

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea.

Saunders, Richard

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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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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

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Rorty, Richard

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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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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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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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