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

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

Hugo, Victor

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.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

The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting.

Nelson, George

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

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 like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

John Steinbeck

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Bridgman, P. W.

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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

Chartier, Alain

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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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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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

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

Brown, Les

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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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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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Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

Hugo, Victor

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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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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

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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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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

Mann, Thomas

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Ideas lose themselves as quickly as quail, and one must wing them the minute they rise out of the grass, or they are gone.

Kennedy, Thomas F.

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Horton, Doug

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

Hodges, Job E.

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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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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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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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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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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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They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.

Einstein, Albert

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Once I thought ideas were exceptions not the rule. That is not so. Ideas are so plentiful that they ride by on air. You've only to reach out and snatch one...

Mckeun, Rod

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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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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 are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell