Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

Best Quotes about Ideas

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.

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

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.

Bachelard, Gaston

If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person.

Bunche, Ralph

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Edison, Thomas A.

An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it.

Bach, Richard

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

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

Rostand, Jean

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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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

Marquis, Don

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

Koysis, Ted

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

Avery, Milton

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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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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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Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Mann, Thomas

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

Saunders, Richard

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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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Foucault, Michel

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.

Lynch, David

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

Judith Brocklehurst

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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.

Einstein, Albert

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

Nelson, George

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.

Keynes, John Maynard

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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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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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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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Maritain, Jacques