Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Ideas are fatal to caste.

- Forster, Edward M.

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

Butler, Samuel

Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.

Dogen

Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

Williamson, Marianne

It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.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

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

Nelson, George

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

Edison, Thomas A.

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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

Jim Hightower

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

Hugo, Victor

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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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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Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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Go out and buy yourself a five-cent pencil and a ten-cent notebook and begin to write down some million-dollar ideas for yourself.

Grinde, Bob

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

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

Frost, Robert

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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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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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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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

Everson, Ray D.

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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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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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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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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Walter Bagehot

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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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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

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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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

Hyman Rickover

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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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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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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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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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Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!

Brown, Les

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