Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

Best Quotes about 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

A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

Maritain, Jacques

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

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

Berry, John

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.

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

John Cage

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

Townsend, Robert

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

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

Avery, Milton

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

Hortense Calisher

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

Anatole France

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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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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Walter Bagehot

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

Victor Hugo

18.

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

Emile Chartier

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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 more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than politicians think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas... that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think.

Foucault, Michel

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

Trotsky, Leon

28.

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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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

30.

Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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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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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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The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.

Lynch, David

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

Marquis, Don

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If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

Pound, Ezra

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Horton, Doug

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

Chartier, Alain

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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 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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