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

It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Mason, Ken

I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

Georgia O'Keeffe

Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.

Howard Aiken

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

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

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

Nelson, George

To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.

Rostand, Jean

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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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easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.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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The idea is in my head to put it down is nothing.

Avery, Milton

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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

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A handsome parson is fit for nothing but ti put ideas into the young woman's heads.

Judith Brocklehurst

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Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

Jim Hightower

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

Ernst, Morris L.

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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Chartier, Alain

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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

Marquis, Don

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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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

John Cage

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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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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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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank.

Berry, John

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

Horton, Doug

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Proust, Marcel

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