Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Hortense Calisher

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

Eliot, George

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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 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

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

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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

Everson, Ray D.

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

Marquis, Don

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

Mann, Thomas

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

Maritain, Jacques

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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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

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

Horton, Doug

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Hugo, Victor

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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Bunche, Ralph

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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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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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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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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 idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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

Chartier, Alain

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

Brande, Dorothea

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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

Hill, Napoleon

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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 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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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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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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Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg