Motivational Quotes

Ideas

The world moves, and ideas that were good once are not always good.

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Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Pauling, Linus

I'm not impressed with the power of a corporate president. I am impressed with the power of ideas.

Mason, Ken

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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

This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

Hortense Calisher

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

Bunche, Ralph

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

Jim Hightower

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

Rorty, Richard

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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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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Victor Hugo

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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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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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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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

William O. Douglas

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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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Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courageous patience.

Rickover, Hyman G.

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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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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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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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There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

Bridgman, P. W.

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The world moves, and ideas that were good once are not always good.

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

Hugo, Victor

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In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations. Then someone got the idea that there were greater sources of supply deeper down. A well was drilled five thousand feet deep. The result? A gusher. Too many of us operate on the surface. We never go deep enough to find supernatural resources. The result is, we never operate at our best. More time and investment is involved to go deep but a gusher will pay off.

Montapert, Alfred A.

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There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man. --

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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You have to hatch ideas -- and then hitch them.

Everson, Ray D.

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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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A crank is someone with a new idea -- until it catches on.

Twain, Mark

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

Chartier, Alain

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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

Saunders, Richard

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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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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

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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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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

James, William

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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting.