Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Canetti, Elias

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Avery, Milton

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

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

Emile Chartier

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.

They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.

Einstein, Albert

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Williamson, Marianne

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Anatole France

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

Townsend, Robert

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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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It's a pretty good idea to be of good cheer but not all the time. Just at the most unexpected times.

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Mere words are cheap and plenty enough, but ideas that rouse and set multitudes thinking come as gold for the mines.

Penny, A. Owen

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So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.

Brande, Dorothea

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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 are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

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

Trotsky, Leon

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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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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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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

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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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

Brown, Les

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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 greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Munro, J. Richard

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

Block, Henry

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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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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Rorty, Richard

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

Koysis, Ted

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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