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

When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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

The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.

William O. Douglas

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

Mason, Ken

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

Munro, J. Richard

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

Jim Hightower

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

A new idea is like a child. It's easier to conceive than to deliver.

Koysis, Ted

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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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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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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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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There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man. --

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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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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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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

Pauling, Linus

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The idea is in my head to put it down is nothing.

Avery, Milton

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

Rorty, Richard

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

Trotsky, Leon

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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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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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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Hodges, Job E.

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

Hyman Rickover

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

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

Marquis, Don

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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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

Block, Henry

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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

Chartier, Alain

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Anatole France