Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Ideas

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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

Munro, J. Richard

Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

John Steinbeck

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.

Block, Henry

An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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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 difference between people and ideas is... only superficial.

Rorty, Richard

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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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The world moves, and ideas that were good once are not always good.

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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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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

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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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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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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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Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Hodges, Job E.

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

Howard Aiken

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

Mann, Thomas

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

Bunche, Ralph

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Hortense Calisher

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The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is seldom explicit. They are utilitarian and political, the instruments of smooth-running government.

Lewis, Wyndham

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

Bridgman, P. W.

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