Motivational Quotes

Ideas

Little words hurt big ideas.

- Newton, Howard W.

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.

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

Lynch, David

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Victor Hugo

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

Hugo, Victor

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

11.

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

Chartier, Alain

15.

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

Avery, Milton

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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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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

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The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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Not the one who has many ideas, but the one who has a single conviction may become a great person.

Cotvos

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

Pauling, Linus

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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Anatole France

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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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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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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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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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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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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Go out and buy yourself a five-cent pencil and a ten-cent notebook and begin to write down some million-dollar ideas for yourself.

Grinde, Bob

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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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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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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

43.

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

Rorty, Richard

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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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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.