Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Pound, Ezra

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

Bachelard, Gaston

The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.

William O. Douglas

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

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

Ideas... they have the power

Hill, Napoleon

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

John Steinbeck

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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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Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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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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It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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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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Go out and buy yourself a five-cent pencil and a ten-cent notebook and begin to write down some million-dollar ideas for yourself.

Grinde, Bob

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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

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Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.

Howard Aiken

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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Anatole France

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

Brown, Les

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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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The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

Bragg, Sir William

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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Neuharth, Al

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There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man. --

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Gibson, Tobias S.

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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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

Marquis, Don

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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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.

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Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

Hector Berlioz

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