Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Eliot, George

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

Anatole France

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

Alfred North Whitehead

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

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

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

Victor Hugo

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

Avery, Milton

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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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 a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Maritain, Jacques

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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Judith Brocklehurst

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting.

Nelson, George

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Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.

Carl Schurz

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Mere words are cheap and plenty enough, but ideas that rouse and set multitudes thinking come as gold for the mines.

Penny, A. Owen

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

Pauling, Linus

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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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The world moves, and ideas that were good once are not always good.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Hill, Napoleon

30.

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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The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

P. B. Medawar

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

Twain, Mark

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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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

Everson, Ray D.

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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 are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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

John Steinbeck

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Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

Jim Hightower

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

43.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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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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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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

Saunders, Richard