Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

Cotvos

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

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Rorty, Richard

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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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

Trotsky, Leon

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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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

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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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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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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 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

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

Eliot, George

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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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Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

Hyman Rickover

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are.

Fitzgerald, Penelope

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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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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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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

Frost, Robert

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

Chartier, Alain

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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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People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

Pound, Ezra

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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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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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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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

Everson, Ray D.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Twain, Mark

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Their acquisition obligates each man in some way to change his life, even if it is only his inner life. They demand to be stood for. They dictate where a man must concentrate his vision. They determine his moral and intellectual priorities. They provide him with allies and make him enemies. In short, ideas impose an interest in their ultimate fate which goes far beyond the realm of the merely reasonable.

Decter, Midge

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Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

Whitehead, Alfred North