Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Gibson, Tobias S.

Best Quotes about Ideas

It first appeared like a crazy idea. It turned out he had a great idea.

Munro, J. Richard

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

An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

Picasso, Pablo

You look at any giant corporation, and I mean the biggies, and they all started with a guy with an idea, doing it well.

Robbins, Irvine

Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Canetti, Elias

Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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

Judith Brocklehurst

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

Chartier, Alain

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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easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.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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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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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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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 human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

P. B. Medawar

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Victor Hugo

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

John Steinbeck

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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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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He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Sutton, Percy

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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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

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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Ernst, Morris L.

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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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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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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Everson, Ray D.

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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Ideas control the world.