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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.

William O. Douglas

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

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

Saunders, Richard

It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.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

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

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Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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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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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.

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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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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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

Marquis, Don

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If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he would make a fortune.

Niblack, Griff

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

Hyman Rickover

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

Bridgman, P. W.

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

Twain, Mark

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Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Sutton, Percy

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

Hector Berlioz

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

Horton, Doug

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To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Hodges, Job E.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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