Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

Best Quotes about Ideas

Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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

Sutton, Percy

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Hortense Calisher

Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

Not the one who has many ideas, but the one who has a single conviction may become a great person.

Cotvos

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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

Chartier, Alain

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

Pound, Ezra

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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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So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Saunders, Richard

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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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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

Anatole France

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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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The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.

Keynes, John Maynard

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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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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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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

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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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It first appeared like a crazy idea. It turned out he had a great idea.

Munro, J. Richard

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

Maritain, Jacques

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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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Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.

Horton, Doug

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I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

Georgia O'Keeffe

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

John Cage

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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 are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.