Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

Best Quotes about Ideas

Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.

Emile Chartier

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

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

Ideas won't work unless you do.

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

Hector Berlioz

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

Block, Henry

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

Hyman Rickover

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Trotsky, Leon

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Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting.

Nelson, George

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

Munro, J. Richard

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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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

Rostand, Jean

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A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank.

Berry, John

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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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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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

Williamson, Marianne

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

Hortense Calisher

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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Rorty, Richard

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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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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It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Townsend, Robert

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

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Chartier, Alain

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

Victor Hugo

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If you have the same ideas as everybody else but have them one week earlier than everyone else then you will be hailed as a visionary. But if you have them five years earlier you will be named a lunatic.

Jones, Barry

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

Marquis, Don

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But how shall I get ideas? Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind -- Act!

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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

Brown, Les