Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Ideas

An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

Pound, Ezra

Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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

Not the one who has many ideas, but the one who has a single conviction may become a great person.

Cotvos

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Rohn, Jim

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

Hodges, Job E.

An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

Frost, Robert

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

Anatole France

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Jim Hightower

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Everson, Ray D.

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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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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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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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Nelson, George

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

P. B. Medawar

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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

Munro, J. Richard

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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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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.

Rivarol, Antoine

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Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: (1) It's completely impossible. (2) It's possible, but it's not worth doing. (3) I said it was a good idea all along.

Clarke, Arthur C.

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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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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest