Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

Best Quotes about Ideas

An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.

Ernst, Morris L.

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

P. B. Medawar

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

Hugo, Victor

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.

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

Jim Hightower

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Everson, Ray D.

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

Proust, Marcel

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To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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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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Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.

Harris, Sidney J.

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The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?

Carnegie, Dale

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It's a pretty good idea to be of good cheer but not all the time. Just at the most unexpected times.

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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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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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When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

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

Avery, Milton

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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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It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are.

Fitzgerald, Penelope

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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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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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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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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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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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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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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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It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

Canetti, Elias

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.

Rostand, Jean

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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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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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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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When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.

Williamson, Marianne

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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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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Eliot, George

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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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I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

John Cage

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An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.

Marquis, Don

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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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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.