Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Everson, Ray D.

Best Quotes about Ideas

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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.

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

Nelson, George

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

Koysis, Ted

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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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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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

Hodges, Job E.

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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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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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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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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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The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Pauling, Linus

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

Sutton, Percy

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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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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

Hector Berlioz

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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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It first appeared like a crazy idea. It turned out he had a great idea.

Munro, J. Richard

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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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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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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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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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

Hugo, Victor

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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Horton, Doug

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

Anatole France

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

Emile Chartier

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An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.

Marquis, Don

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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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

Hugo, Victor

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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.

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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.