Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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.

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

Jim Hightower

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

John Steinbeck

Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Saunders, Richard

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

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

Hugo, Victor

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Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

Eliot, George

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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Proust, Marcel

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Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wander whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.

Ernst, Morris L.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.

Bacon, Francis

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Hodges, Job E.

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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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A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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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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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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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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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 discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.

Bachelard, Gaston

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It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

Canetti, Elias

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So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.

Brande, Dorothea

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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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You look at any giant corporation, and I mean the biggies, and they all started with a guy with an idea, doing it well.

Robbins, Irvine

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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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

Hyman Rickover

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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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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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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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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Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie