Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Ideas too are a life and a world.

- Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Best Quotes about Ideas

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Rohn, Jim

The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Twain, Mark

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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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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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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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Horton, Doug

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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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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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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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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

Avery, Milton

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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

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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 won't work unless you do.

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Marquis, Don

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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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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 are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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

Saunders, Richard

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

Hugo, Victor

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

John Steinbeck