Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Maritain, Jacques

Best Quotes about Ideas

It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.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

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

Bunche, Ralph

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

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

Eliot, George

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

Twain, Mark

What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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

John Cage

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Proust, Marcel

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Great people talk about ideas. Small people talk about other people.

Gibson, Tobias S.

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.

Emile Chartier

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

Sutton, Percy

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

Saunders, Richard

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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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A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Butler, Samuel

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Avery, Milton

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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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He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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

Ernst, Morris L.

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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Victor Hugo

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Everything begins with an idea.