Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

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

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Butler, Samuel

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

John Cage

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.

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

We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.

Block, Henry

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

Chartier, Alain

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The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.

William O. Douglas

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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Trotsky, Leon

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Once I thought ideas were exceptions not the rule. That is not so. Ideas are so plentiful that they ride by on air. You've only to reach out and snatch one...

Mckeun, Rod

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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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Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea.

Saunders, Richard

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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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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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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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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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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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

Rorty, Richard

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Marquis, Don

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Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Maritain, Jacques

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Fitzgerald, Penelope

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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A handsome parson is fit for nothing but ti put ideas into the young woman's heads.

Judith Brocklehurst

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

Townsend, Robert

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