Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

- Gourmont, Remy De

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!

Brown, Les

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

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

Koysis, Ted

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

Bachelard, Gaston

Greater than the tread of mighty armies 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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Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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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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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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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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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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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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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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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Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

Eliot, George

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

Marquis, Don

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

Everson, Ray D.

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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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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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The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Pauling, Linus

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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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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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Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Chartier, Alain

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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