Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Judith Brocklehurst

Best Quotes about Ideas

Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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

The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hugo, Victor

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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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Many ideas are good for a limited time -- not forever.

Townsend, Robert

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

Sutton, Percy

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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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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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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

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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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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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

Block, Henry

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

Horton, Doug

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Everson, Ray D.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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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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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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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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An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.

Marquis, Don

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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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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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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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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Ideas... they have the power