Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Lynch, David

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Hill, Napoleon

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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

Eliot, George

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

Judith Brocklehurst

A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank.

Berry, John

If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

Mann, Thomas

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The point, simply, is that we are doing more rediscovering these days than discovering coming anew upon truths that ignorant people refused to examine, over the centuries, because the wise people who held custody of the fundamental truths of nature were unpopular.

Williamson, John

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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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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easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.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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Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Rohn, Jim

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An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

Frost, Robert

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

Rostand, Jean

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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Hugo, Victor

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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

Canetti, Elias

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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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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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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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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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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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

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Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

Pound, Ezra

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

Sutton, Percy

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

Proust, Marcel

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I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

John Cage

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

Everson, Ray D.

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The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is seldom explicit. They are utilitarian and political, the instruments of smooth-running government.

Lewis, Wyndham

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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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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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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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If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person.

Bunche, Ralph