Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Marquis, Don

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

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

Ernst, Morris L.

A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

James, William

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

Hodges, Job E.

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Samuel Goldwyn

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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

Marquis, Don

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

Mann, Thomas

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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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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

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

Horton, Doug

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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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

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There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

Bridgman, P. W.

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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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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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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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Pauling, Linus

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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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

Saunders, Richard

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Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you only have one.

Chartier, Alain

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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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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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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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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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An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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