Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Pauling, Linus

Best Quotes about Ideas

There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

Bridgman, P. W.

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Brown, Les

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

Frost, Robert

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

Pauling, Linus

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

Hortense Calisher

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Jim Hightower

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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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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 too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

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

Niblack, Griff

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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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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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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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People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

Pound, Ezra

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Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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 won't work unless you do.

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

Williamson, Marianne

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

Lynch, David

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A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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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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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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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.

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