Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Everson, Ray D.

Best Quotes about Ideas

Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.

Harris, Sidney J.

Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

P. B. Medawar

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

I'm not impressed with the power of a corporate president. I am impressed with the power of ideas.

Mason, Ken

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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A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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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.

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

Twain, Mark

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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.

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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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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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 too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Rorty, Richard

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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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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Mann, Thomas

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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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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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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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We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man may aspire, and yet be quite content until it is time to raise; and both flying and resting are but parts of one contentment. The very fruit of the gospel is aspiration. It is to the heart what spring is to the earth, making every root, and bud, and bough desire to be more. -

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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

Maritain, Jacques

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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.