Motivational Quotes

Ideas

An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

- Picasso, Pablo

Best Quotes about Ideas

Long is the road from conception to completion.

Moliere

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

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

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

Marquis, Don

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Lynch, David

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

A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

James, William

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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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There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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The world moves, and ideas that were good once are not always good.

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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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It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.

Block, Henry

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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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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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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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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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Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

Hugo, Victor

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

Emile Chartier

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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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Once I thought ideas were exceptions not the rule. That is not so. Ideas are so plentiful that they ride by on air. You've only to reach out and snatch one...

Mckeun, Rod

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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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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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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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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He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Brown, Les

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

Canetti, Elias

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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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If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person.

Bunche, Ralph

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

Chartier, Alain

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Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: (1) It's completely impossible. (2) It's possible, but it's not worth doing. (3) I said it was a good idea all along.

Clarke, Arthur C.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes