Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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.

Best Quotes about Ideas

The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

Hugo, Victor

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.

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

The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

Hubbard, Elbert

An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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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easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.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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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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Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!

Brown, Les

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Butler, Samuel

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

Proust, Marcel

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

Twain, Mark

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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

Horton, Doug

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Everson, Ray D.

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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

John Steinbeck

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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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

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If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he would make a fortune.

Niblack, Griff

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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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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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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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

Mann, Thomas

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