Motivational Quotes

Ideas

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

- Saunders, Richard

Best Quotes about Ideas

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

Emile Chartier

The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

Alfred North Whitehead

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

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

Samuel Goldwyn

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

A new idea is like a child. It's easier to conceive than to deliver.

Koysis, Ted

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

Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something.

Simpson, E. L.

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

Lynch, David

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Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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It first appeared like a crazy idea. It turned out he had a great idea.

Munro, J. Richard

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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 a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

William O. Douglas

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

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No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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

John Steinbeck

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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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Many ideas are good for a limited time -- not forever.

Townsend, Robert

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A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank.

Berry, John

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Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

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Ideas won't work unless you do.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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