Motivational Quotes

Ideas

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

- Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Sutton, Percy

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

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Their acquisition obligates each man in some way to change his life, even if it is only his inner life. They demand to be stood for. They dictate where a man must concentrate his vision. They determine his moral and intellectual priorities. They provide him with allies and make him enemies. In short, ideas impose an interest in their ultimate fate which goes far beyond the realm of the merely reasonable.

Decter, Midge

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Alfred North Whitehead

In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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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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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

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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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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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It's a pretty good idea to be of good cheer but not all the time. Just at the most unexpected times.

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

Avery, Milton

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

Berry, John

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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 worth nothing if it has no champion.

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations. Then someone got the idea that there were greater sources of supply deeper down. A well was drilled five thousand feet deep. The result? A gusher. Too many of us operate on the surface. We never go deep enough to find supernatural resources. The result is, we never operate at our best. More time and investment is involved to go deep but a gusher will pay off.

Montapert, Alfred A.

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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

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

Bunche, Ralph

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

Emile Chartier

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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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Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Lynch, David

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

Canetti, Elias

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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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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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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

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Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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

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

Frost, Robert

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

Williamson, Marianne

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

John Cage

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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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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