Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Pauling, Linus

Best Quotes about Ideas

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

Ideas won't work unless you do.

A handsome parson is fit for nothing but ti put ideas into the young woman's heads.

Judith Brocklehurst

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

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

If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

Mann, Thomas

Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!

Brown, Les

An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Twain, Mark

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

Lynch, David

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

Hodges, Job E.

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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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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.

Dogen

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Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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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 can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Rohn, Jim

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Trotsky, Leon

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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

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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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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

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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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Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea.

Saunders, Richard

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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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In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations. Then someone got the idea that there were greater sources of supply deeper down. A well was drilled five thousand feet deep. The result? A gusher. Too many of us operate on the surface. We never go deep enough to find supernatural resources. The result is, we never operate at our best. More time and investment is involved to go deep but a gusher will pay off.

Montapert, Alfred A.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Anatole France

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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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