Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

Best Quotes about Ideas

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.

Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Ideas won't work unless you do.

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

Anatole France

Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.

Harris, Sidney J.

A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

James, William

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

Bachelard, Gaston

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

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

Judith Brocklehurst

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Hortense Calisher

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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

Rorty, Richard

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Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first.

Hodges, Job E.

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There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

Bridgman, P. W.

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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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

Sutton, Percy

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Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.

Horton, Doug

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

Pound, Ezra

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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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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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

John Cage

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

Twain, Mark

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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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To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

H. L. Mencken

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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 that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.

Trotsky, Leon

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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

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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Marquis, Don

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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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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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.