Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

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

Mann, Thomas

Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Nelson, George

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

Hyman Rickover

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

Canetti, Elias

A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

11.

Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

12.

Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

14.

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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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'm not impressed with the power of a corporate president. I am impressed with the power of ideas.

Mason, Ken

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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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A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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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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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

Hortense Calisher

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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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It first appeared like a crazy idea. It turned out he had a great idea.

Munro, J. Richard

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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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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

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

Einstein, Albert

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You have to hatch ideas -- and then hitch them.

Everson, Ray D.

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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

31.

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

Maritain, Jacques

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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

34.

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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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

Proust, Marcel

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There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than politicians think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas... that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think.

Foucault, Michel

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Ernst, Morris L.

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

Chartier, Alain

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

John Cage

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In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations. Then someone got the idea that there were greater sources of supply deeper down. A well was drilled five thousand feet deep. The result? A gusher. Too many of us operate on the surface. We never go deep enough to find supernatural resources. The result is, we never operate at our best. More time and investment is involved to go deep but a gusher will pay off.

Montapert, Alfred A.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y