Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

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

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

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

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

Great people talk about ideas. Small people talk about other people.

Gibson, Tobias S.

There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

Bridgman, P. W.

It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

Canetti, Elias

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

Eliot, George

Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

Rorty, Richard

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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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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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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something.

Simpson, E. L.

17.

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's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.

Oech, Roger Von

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

Berry, John

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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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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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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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Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Pauling, Linus

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Brown, Les

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations. Then someone got the idea that there were greater sources of supply deeper down. A well was drilled five thousand feet deep. The result? A gusher. Too many of us operate on the surface. We never go deep enough to find supernatural resources. The result is, we never operate at our best. More time and investment is involved to go deep but a gusher will pay off.

Montapert, Alfred A.

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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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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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If you pray for only one thing, .let it be for an idea.

Sutton, Percy

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

Avery, Milton

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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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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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