Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Proust, Marcel

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Hugo, Victor

An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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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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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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The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.

Lynch, David

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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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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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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Block, Henry

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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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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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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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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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Jones, Barry

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The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.

William O. Douglas

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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

Butler, Samuel

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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

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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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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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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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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 control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

John Steinbeck

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

Walter Bagehot

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Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.