Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Ideas

Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

Hyman Rickover

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

Hugo, Victor

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

Anatole France

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

Eliot, George

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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So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.

J. B. S. Haldane

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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

Canetti, Elias

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

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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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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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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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A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

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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

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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.

Einstein, Albert

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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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The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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You look at any giant corporation, and I mean the biggies, and they all started with a guy with an idea, doing it well.

Robbins, Irvine

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

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Such as take lodgings in a head that's to be let unfurnished.

Butler, Samuel

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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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I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

John Cage

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

Frost, Robert

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

Bridgman, P. W.

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

Rorty, Richard

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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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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.