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 never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it.

Bach, Richard

Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

John Steinbeck

If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Munro, J. Richard

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

Everson, Ray D.

Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Rorty, Richard

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Koysis, Ted

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Mere words are cheap and plenty enough, but ideas that rouse and set multitudes thinking come as gold for the mines.

Penny, A. Owen

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Avery, Milton

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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

Trotsky, Leon

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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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

Jim Hightower

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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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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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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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Many ideas are good for a limited time -- not forever.