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

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Victor Hugo

Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

Frost, Robert

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

Harris, Sidney J.

What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Townsend, Robert

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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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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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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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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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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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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.

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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 ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?

Carnegie, Dale

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The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

Bragg, Sir William

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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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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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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He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Anatole France

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

Chartier, Alain

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.

Block, Henry

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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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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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Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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 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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To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

H. L. Mencken

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

Butler, Samuel

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