Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Everson, Ray D.

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wander whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Emile Chartier

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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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

Bridgman, P. W.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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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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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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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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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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The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting.

Nelson, George

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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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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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If you pray for only one thing, .let it be for an idea.

Sutton, Percy

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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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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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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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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

Avery, Milton

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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

James, William

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

Anatole France

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Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

Jim Hightower

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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 great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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

Eliot, George

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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Great ideas originate in the muscles.