Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Keynes, John Maynard

Best Quotes about Ideas

Mere words are cheap and plenty enough, but ideas that rouse and set multitudes thinking come as gold for the mines.

Penny, A. Owen

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

Hugo, Victor

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

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

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Saunders, Richard

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

Williamson, Marianne

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

12.

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Twain, Mark

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

Eliot, George

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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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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This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

Hortense Calisher

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

Avery, Milton

26.

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

Sutton, Percy

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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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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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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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A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

Maritain, Jacques

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A new idea is like a child. It's easier to conceive than to deliver.

Koysis, Ted

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Go out and buy yourself a five-cent pencil and a ten-cent notebook and begin to write down some million-dollar ideas for yourself.

Grinde, Bob

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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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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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Judith Brocklehurst

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