Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Williamson, Marianne

Best Quotes about Ideas

It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.

Keynes, John Maynard

What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Many ideas are good for a limited time -- not forever.

Townsend, Robert

Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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

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

Ideas lose themselves as quickly as quail, and one must wing them the minute they rise out of the grass, or they are gone.

Kennedy, Thomas F.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

John Steinbeck

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

Canetti, Elias

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Rohn, Jim

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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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The point, simply, is that we are doing more rediscovering these days than discovering coming anew upon truths that ignorant people refused to examine, over the centuries, because the wise people who held custody of the fundamental truths of nature were unpopular.

Williamson, John

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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Lynch, David

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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

Rorty, Richard

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

Horton, Doug

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

Maritain, Jacques

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

Mann, Thomas

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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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

Mason, Ken

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

Saunders, Richard

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

Chartier, Alain

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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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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.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

Hyman Rickover