Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Emile Chartier

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

Hodges, Job E.

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

Niblack, Griff

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Rohn, Jim

When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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

Pauling, Linus

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

Chartier, Alain

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

Alfred North Whitehead

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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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Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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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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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

18.

Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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

Jim Hightower

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

Howard Aiken

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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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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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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something.

Simpson, E. L.

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

Rostand, Jean

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Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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

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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

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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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

Eliot, George

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

Bunche, Ralph

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Marquis, Don

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.