Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Not the one who has many ideas, but the one who has a single conviction may become a great person.

- Cotvos

Best Quotes about Ideas

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All opening moves were the same, like in chess. You don't have to come up with anything new, there's no point, because you're both after the same thing anyway. The game soon finds its own way and it's only at that point that you need a strategy.

Paolo Giordano

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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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Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.

Ernst, Morris L.

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Canetti, Elias

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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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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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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easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.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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There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.

Emile Chartier

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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 fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

14.

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

John Cage

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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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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

18.

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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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

20.

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

23.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first.

Hodges, Job E.

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

Maritain, Jacques

27.

An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

28.

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

Bridgman, P. W.

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

Townsend, Robert

30.

Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

31.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

32.

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

Koysis, Ted

33.

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

Victor Hugo

34.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Chartier, Alain

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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

39.

The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

Bragg, Sir William

40.

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

Avery, Milton

41.

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Rohn, Jim

42.

If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person.

Bunche, Ralph

43.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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.

46.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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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

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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

49.

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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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