Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Marquis, Don

Best Quotes about Ideas

Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something.

Simpson, E. L.

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

Proust, Marcel

The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial.

Rorty, Richard

Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

Koysis, Ted

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

Bunche, Ralph

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

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Sutton, Percy

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

Williamson, Marianne

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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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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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In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations. Then someone got the idea that there were greater sources of supply deeper down. A well was drilled five thousand feet deep. The result? A gusher. Too many of us operate on the surface. We never go deep enough to find supernatural resources. The result is, we never operate at our best. More time and investment is involved to go deep but a gusher will pay off.

Montapert, Alfred A.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Twain, Mark

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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 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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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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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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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Victor Hugo

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Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!

Brown, Les

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Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Ernst, Morris L.

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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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Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: (1) It's completely impossible. (2) It's possible, but it's not worth doing. (3) I said it was a good idea all along.

Clarke, Arthur C.

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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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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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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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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.