Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- John Steinbeck

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Ideas won't work unless you do.

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

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

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

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

Saunders, Richard

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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

Horton, Doug

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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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

Rorty, Richard

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Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Bunche, Ralph

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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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There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.

Emile Chartier

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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

Hyman Rickover

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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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

Mann, Thomas

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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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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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

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Walter Bagehot

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

Avery, Milton

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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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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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

Judith Brocklehurst

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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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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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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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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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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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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Mason, Ken

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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