Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

- Hector Berlioz

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.

Emile Chartier

Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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

An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

Frost, Robert

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

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

Sutton, Percy

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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

Lynch, David

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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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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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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person.

Bunche, Ralph

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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

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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Saunders, Richard

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Brown, Les

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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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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Hodges, Job E.

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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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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

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Penny, A. Owen

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

Pauling, Linus

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

Marquis, Don

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The world moves, and ideas that were good once are not always good.

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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