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

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

Hortense Calisher

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

Alfred North Whitehead

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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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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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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The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is seldom explicit. They are utilitarian and political, the instruments of smooth-running government.

Lewis, Wyndham

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

Emile Chartier

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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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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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There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.

Brande, Dorothea

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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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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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

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

Hodges, Job E.

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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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

Canetti, Elias

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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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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

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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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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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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Bunche, Ralph

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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

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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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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry