Motivational Quotes

Ideas

The best ideas are common property.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Ideas

The idea is in my head to put it down is nothing.

Avery, Milton

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

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

Hyman Rickover

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

An idea is the only level which moves the world.

Corey, Arthur F.

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

Block, Henry

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

Hugo, Victor

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Forster, Edward M.

Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

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An idea discovered is much better possessed.

Young

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

Lynch, David

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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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A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

Proust, Marcel

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

Eliot, George

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

Victor Hugo

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Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

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

Munro, J. Richard

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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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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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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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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 ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?

Carnegie, Dale

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

Mann, Thomas

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

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Sir Frederick G. Banting

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

James, William

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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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Ideas are the roots of creation.

Dimnet, Ernest

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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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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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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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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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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