Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Bridgman, P. W.

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

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

Trotsky, Leon

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.

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

Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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.

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

Anatole France

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Such as take lodgings in a head that's to be let unfurnished.

Butler, Samuel

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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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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Hortense Calisher

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

William O. Douglas

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

Emile Chartier

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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You have to hatch ideas -- and then hitch them.

Everson, Ray D.

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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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

Lynch, David

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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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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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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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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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A crank is someone with a new idea -- until it catches on.

Twain, Mark

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Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Hugo, Victor

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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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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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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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 are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.

Horton, Doug

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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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

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.