Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Anatole France

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Hugo, Victor

Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first.

Hodges, Job E.

Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Their acquisition obligates each man in some way to change his life, even if it is only his inner life. They demand to be stood for. They dictate where a man must concentrate his vision. They determine his moral and intellectual priorities. They provide him with allies and make him enemies. In short, ideas impose an interest in their ultimate fate which goes far beyond the realm of the merely reasonable.

Decter, Midge

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

Brown, Les

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

Pauling, Linus

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

Rorty, Richard

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.

Ernst, Morris L.

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

Marquis, Don

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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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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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Horton, Doug

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

Hill, Napoleon

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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

James, William

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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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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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Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courageous patience.

Rickover, Hyman G.

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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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Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

Eliot, George

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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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

Saunders, Richard

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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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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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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Jim Hightower

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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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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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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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It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are.

Fitzgerald, Penelope

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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

Alfred North Whitehead

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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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Long is the road from conception to completion.