Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.

- Glasgow, Arnold H.

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Saunders, Richard

Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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

Simpson, E. L.

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

Howard Aiken

Mere words are cheap and plenty enough, but ideas that rouse and set multitudes thinking come as gold for the mines.

Penny, A. Owen

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

Avery, Milton

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

Lynch, David

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Koysis, Ted

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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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Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Rostand, Jean

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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 too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Everson, Ray D.

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

Judith Brocklehurst

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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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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

Hugo, Victor

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Sutton, Percy

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

Williamson, Marianne

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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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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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

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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

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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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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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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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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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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Rorty, Richard

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

Chartier, Alain