Motivational Quotes

Ideas

It first appeared like a crazy idea. It turned out he had a great idea.

- Munro, J. Richard

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Koysis, Ted

Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

It first appeared like a crazy idea. It turned out he had a great idea.

Munro, J. Richard

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

James, William

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.

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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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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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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I'm not impressed with the power of a corporate president. I am impressed with the power of ideas.

Mason, Ken

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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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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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

Hugo, Victor

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

Simpson, E. L.

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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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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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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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

Rorty, Richard

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than politicians think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas... that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think.

Foucault, Michel

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If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he would make a fortune.

Niblack, Griff

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

Everson, Ray D.

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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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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.

Einstein, Albert

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So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.

Brande, Dorothea

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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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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 discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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

Avery, Milton

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