Motivational Quotes

Ideas

It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.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

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.

Trotsky, Leon

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Niblack, Griff

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

Twain, Mark

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

Emile Chartier

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

Eliot, George

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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 best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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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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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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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

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

Chartier, Alain

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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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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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

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Hyman Rickover

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

Munro, J. Richard

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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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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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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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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

Howard Aiken

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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Walter Bagehot

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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Alfred North Whitehead

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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