Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Walter Bagehot

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Marquis, Don

If you pray for only one thing, .let it be for an idea.

Sutton, Percy

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Judith Brocklehurst

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

Brown, Les

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Hortense Calisher

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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Bunche, Ralph

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Mason, Ken

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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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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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

John Cage

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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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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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.

Oech, Roger Von

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

Penny, A. Owen

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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

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

Williamson, Marianne

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

Nelson, George

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