Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Nelson, George

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Emile Chartier

Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.

Howard Aiken

What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Jim Hightower

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.

Lynch, David

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

Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Hodges, Job E.

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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

Sutton, Percy

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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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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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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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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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The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.

William O. Douglas

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

Avery, Milton

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

Butler, Samuel

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Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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You look at any giant corporation, and I mean the biggies, and they all started with a guy with an idea, doing it well.

Robbins, Irvine

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

Bunche, Ralph

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

Rorty, Richard

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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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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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

Hortense Calisher

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

Proust, Marcel

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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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

Victor Hugo

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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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The point, simply, is that we are doing more rediscovering these days than discovering coming anew upon truths that ignorant people refused to examine, over the centuries, because the wise people who held custody of the fundamental truths of nature were unpopular.

Williamson, John

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

Alfred North Whitehead

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Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

Hugo, Victor

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Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.

Block, Henry

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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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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