Motivational Quotes

Ideas

A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

- James, William

Best Quotes about Ideas

When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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

John Cage

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

Nelson, George

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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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There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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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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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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Such as take lodgings in a head that's to be let unfurnished.

Butler, Samuel

22.

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

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Block, Henry

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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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They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.

Einstein, Albert

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

Saunders, Richard

32.

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.

Williamson, Marianne

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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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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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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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

Sutton, Percy

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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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

Bunche, Ralph

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To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

H. L. Mencken

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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.

Trotsky, Leon

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The idea is in my head to put it down is nothing.

Avery, Milton

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

Horton, Doug