Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

- Gourmont, Remy De

Best Quotes about Ideas

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

Gide, Andre

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Howard Aiken

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

Hyman Rickover

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Ernst, Morris L.

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Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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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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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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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 too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Walter Bagehot

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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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This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

Hortense Calisher

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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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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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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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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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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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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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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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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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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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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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

Maritain, Jacques

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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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Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wander whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn