Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Trotsky, Leon

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Saunders, Richard

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

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

Rorty, Richard

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

Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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

Twain, Mark

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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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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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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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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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

Pauling, Linus

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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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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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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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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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Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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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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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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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

Hugo, Victor

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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

Hill, Napoleon

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The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Townsend, Robert

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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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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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A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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

Munro, J. Richard

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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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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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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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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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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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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 worth nothing if it has no champion.

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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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To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.

Rostand, Jean