Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Ideas are fatal to caste.

- Forster, Edward M.

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Rohn, Jim

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.

A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank.

Berry, John

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

Pound, Ezra

To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.

Rostand, Jean

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

James, William

Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.

Ernst, Morris L.

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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

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

Avery, Milton

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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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Great people talk about ideas. Small people talk about other people.

Gibson, Tobias S.

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

Rorty, Richard

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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

Everson, Ray D.

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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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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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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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The point, simply, is that we are doing more rediscovering these days than discovering coming anew upon truths that ignorant people refused to examine, over the centuries, because the wise people who held custody of the fundamental truths of nature were unpopular.

Williamson, John

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.

Howard Aiken

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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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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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But how shall I get ideas? Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind -- Act!

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Hugo, Victor

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Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something.

Simpson, E. L.

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

Twain, Mark

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

John Cage